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unshared

unshared

1 5.9
One person or group keeps it and does not give it to others
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈʃɛrd/
translation icon : no compartido
  • Her unshared thoughts on the matter demonstrated how deeply she had considered it.
  • unshared revenue

Examples

  • It was good news, but good news unshared with the public.

  • For the perpetrator, the pain and fear are remote, unreal, and largely unshared.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Some facts are best left unshared like that one.

  • Hers remained a secret, unshared pain.

    Academic text (2011)
  • It is not easy to get them to agree on a time because they all keep step to their own private, unshared schedules.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • So having so many unshared pairs weakens the single bond.

  • They laughed together and separately at some unknown and unshared joke, laughed loudly and inordinately, laughed until they both had tears in their eyes.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • These four, though, represent only a small part of the manuscript: within the larger collection, poems like "The Women" and "Ether or" appear less as simple, one-time departures from patriarchal constraints and more as testimony to the familiar zig-zagging of women's lives, through shared and unshared experiences.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The project was a great success, but the details were unshared with the rest of the team.

  • He had an unshared passion for painting that only became known after his passing.

Synonyms

private
vsunshared
1.8

For one person or group only and not open to others

is about exclusive use or ownership rather than secrecy
confidential
vsunshared
205 5.3

Not shared with others because it should be secret

is about being for one person or group rather than secrecy
unrevealed
vsunshared
1 6.2

Kept secret from other people

is about exclusive use rather than merely not yet shared

Antonyms

1 1.0

Used, held, or felt by more than one group of people

How Shared

public
1.0
shared
1 1.0
limited
393 2.5
unshared
1 5.9

Surface Forms

unshared positive

Morphology

unshared = shared (transparent) = un + share + ed

The adjective is formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'shared', a regular negation of a participial adjective.

Etymology

Unshared is simply un- 'not' plus share, which means 'to give part of something to others'. A helpful image is someone keeping the whole cake to themselves—something 'unshared' is kept by one person and not given to others, so it means 'not shared with others'.