unmentioned
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmɛnʃənd/
- In the account that followed, no "German" state supreme court justice, governor, or lieutenant governor went unmentioned.
- go unmentioned
- leave unmentioned
- remains unmentioned
What went unmentioned deliberately when the police shared their handiwork with the public was that those cell phone towers cast a wide net.
- What went unmentioned deliberately when the police shared their handiwork with the public was that those cell phone towers cast a wide net.
Examples
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All of their names went unmentioned in her Sunday phone calls home.
Fiction book (1998) -
The agent, the cause of the wrecking, is left unmentioned.
Academic text (2006) -
But there is another kind of pressure towards regional identity and difference that goes unmentioned in this debate.
Academic text (2008) -
This structure was unmentioned in any report made by the previous and abandoned expedition to this planet.
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As is often the case, the unmentioned is more interesting than the putative point.
Blog text (31) -
Yet in these accords, one set of actors often goes unmentioned.
Academic text (1999) -
Have you ever noticed how many children's books have unmentioned cats in the illustrations?
Blog text (23) -
Ruvy has referred to what I consider the real agenda: the unmentioned elephant in the room.
Blog text (5) -
But what's often left unmentioned, not by de Waal but by other commentators, is the bonobos.
Academic text (2011) -
Her contributions to the project went unmentioned during the meeting.
Synonyms
Not mentioned to the public or to officials
Something people do not talk about in meetings or conversations
Not mentioned, cited or named in speech and writing
People do not mention or discuss it in public
How Documented
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmentioned = mentioned + un (transparent) = un + mention + ed
The adjective is formed by negating 'mentioned' with the productive prefix 'un-', yielding a direct opposite meaning.
Etymology
The word unmentioned joins the prefix un- meaning 'not' with mention meaning 'to speak about' or 'say'. So, unmentioned simply means 'not spoken about' or 'not talked about'.