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ungiven

ungiven

8.7
Not mentioned before in a talk or text and new to the listener
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈɡɪvən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no dado
  • There were questions yet unasked and answers yet ungiven; there were doubts, misgivings, and fears to be conquered.

Examples

  • He felt the weight of an ungiven apology lingering in the air after their argument.

  • She turned and walked back over the hill, her gift ungiven, and lay awake in her sweat until morning.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • She walks, concluded, in a fading and ungiven legacy of beauty.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The artist's work was filled with ungiven emotions that had yet to be expressed.

  • After the meeting, several ungiven suggestions were still floating in his mind.

Synonyms

unintroduced
vsungiven
6.8

Not brought into a place or shown to people before

is focused on not being mentioned before in a conversation or text

Antonyms

given
4 4.6

A fact or condition treated as true in a situation

known
2 1.0

Familiar to many people and easy to identify

How Known

known
2 1.0
familiar
793 1.0
ungiven
  • Specialized
8.7
unfamiliar
104 4.4
unknown
629 2.3

Surface Forms

ungiven positive

Morphology

ungiven = given (transparent) = un + given

Meaning is directly derived from the adjective/past participle 'given' with the productive negating prefix 'un-'.

Etymology

Ungiven is built from un- 'not' plus the verb give, so it literally means 'not given'. In grammar, an ungiven subject or detail is something not mentioned before, so the reader or listener must guess or infer it.