unshared
- adjective
- /ʌnˈʃɛrd/
- Her unshared thoughts on the matter demonstrated how deeply she had considered it.
- unshared revenue
Examples
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It was good news, but good news unshared with the public.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He had an unshared passion for painting that only became known after his passing.
Synonyms
For one person or group only and not open to others
Not shared with others because it should be secret
Kept secret from other people
Antonyms
How Shared
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.