unexpressed

Examples

• All

• You have a problem with unexpressed anger.

  The First Wives Club (1996)

• But in life, that unexpressed potential is pleasurable.

• "My soul is heavy with unexpressed love."

  Cyrano (2021)

• Yet, in ways that often go unexpressed, it's made us thankful for one another.

  Blog text (29)

• The man had some deep, unexpressed sorrow I could never know.

  Cobb (1994)

• I think that he recognized in these two words a previously unexpressed motto for his own life.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Inherently, they fully recognize that the greatest remorse is love unexpressed.

  Academic text (1990)

• Not that it mattered... there was something in her own feminine psyche that responded to all the unexpressed needs of the man.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Could unexpressed grief over the Nazi slaughter have contributed to her manic-depressive disease?

  Fiction book (1998)

• She often felt unexpressed feelings of sadness that weighed on her heart.

Synonyms

U

unspoken

vsunexpressed

56 4.8

Not said aloud but people understand it

is the neutral case of things simply not directly communicated in words

U

unsaid

vsunexpressed

20 5.8

Not spoken out loud

is the wider meaning of not being directly communicated in words

U

unstated

vsunexpressed

6 5.6

Not said or written openly

is the basic idea of something not put into words or communicated

U

unvoiced

vsunexpressed

1 6.7

Not said out loud but understood by people

is the broader idea of something not directly communicated in words

U

unuttered

vsunexpressed

1 7.9

Not said aloud or expressed in words

is the general sense of lacking any explicit verbal communication

U

unformulated

vsunexpressed

1 7.0

Not clearly expressed or made definite

is more about absence of direct verbal communication than lack of clear shape

U

unverbalized

vsunexpressed

9.9

Not said in words but shown by actions or looks

is the general idea of lacking direct verbal expression

U

unaired

vsunexpressed

6.5

Not made public, for example opinions or complaints

is about something not put into words rather than simply kept from public view

Antonyms

E

expressed

3.2

Words or actions make it clear

How Expressed

declared

3.0

expressed

3.2

unexpressed

3 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology