undiscussed
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5.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪsˈkʌst/
- Some personal feelings can stay undiscussed between friends to avoid conflicts.
- go undiscussed
Examples
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Again, Palin's actual record went largely undiscussed.
Academic text (2010) -
Along with clean water, food, and shelter, this may now be an important yet undiscussed sustenance issue.
Blog text (22) -
So I feel that I might get a bit of crap for this topic, but as the dating and relationship columnist, this is a topic that cannot go undiscussed.
Blog text (14) -
Too tired to do so now, but it's not actually gone undiscussed (although the arguments don't satisfy liberals).
Blog text (4) -
She was also a fervent nationalist and held quite a candle for Roger Casement, although her sexuality was as undiscussed as his own.
Academic text (2003) -
The larger issues, his flirtations and probable infidelities, went undiscussed, for I was too frightened of losing him to show my jealousy and despair.
Academic text (2003) -
What, exactly, is it about art, architectural, or design programs that makes it vital to maintain their existence within a shrinking educational system, one governed by a constantly discussed ideal of intellectual interdisciplinarity and an undiscussed reality of fiscal interdisciplinarity?
Academic text (1998) -
Many important topics often remain undiscussed in the media.
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The environmental issues have been undiscussed at the conference despite their importance.
Synonyms
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4.4
Not said or talked about
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7.4
Not noticed or talked about by other people
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6.8
People do not mention or discuss it in public
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8.8
A topic not discussed or mentioned in conversation
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6.2
People leave it unchanged without talking about it
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7.8
Not discussed or presented in a court decision
Surface Forms
Morphology
undiscussed = discussed (transparent) = un + discuss + ed
The meaning 'not discussed' is a direct negation formed by adding un- to 'discussed', so the relation is straightforward.
Etymology
The word undiscussed comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the verb discuss meaning 'to talk about'. A helpful way to remember this is that discuss once meant to 'shake apart' ideas to look at them, so something undiscussed is simply 'not talked about'.