unuttered
- adjective
- /ʌnˈʌtərd/
- The atmosphere was thick with unuttered concerns that lingered in the room.
Examples
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His unuttered thoughts weighed heavily on his mind, trapped between silence and speech.
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" And everywhere, through the immortal dark, something moving in the night, and something stirring in the hearts of men, and something crying in their wild, unuttered blood, the wild, unuttered tongues of its huge prophecies so soon the morning, soon the morning: 0 America.
Fiction book (1990) -
Even here there were other unuttered words in what she said, other ideas, possibilities, impossibilities.
Fiction book (1991) -
" And everywhere, through the immortal dark, something moving in the night, and something stirring in the hearts of men, and something crying in their wild, unuttered blood, the wild, unuttered tongues of its huge prophecies so soon the morning, soon the morning: 0 America.
Fiction book (1990) -
She felt many unuttered emotions during the farewell, unable to express them aloud.
Synonyms
Not said aloud but people understand it
Not spoken out loud
Not said or written openly
Not said or shown but clearly felt
Not said out loud but understood by people
Thoughts or feelings not said out loud
Not said in words but shown by actions or looks
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
unuttered = uttered (transparent) = un + utter + ed
Formed by negating the past participle 'uttered' with 'un-', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not spoken aloud'.
Etymology
The word unuttered starts with un- meaning 'not' and uses utter meaning 'to say', so it means 'not said'. Think of an apology or a thought that stays inside and is never spoken aloud, which is exactly what the word describes.