unperceived
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnpərˈsiːvd/
:
no percibido
- Many important details often remain unperceived until we take the time to reflect.
- unperceived and yet
- remains unperceived
Examples
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While she spoke passionately, his agreement remained unperceived by the crowd.
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The identification of previously unperceived relationships among different disciplines of science led to a holistic understanding of the three environmental problems discussed here.
Academic text (1993) -
Martin, sensing he had accidentally stumbled across some unperceived border, remained silent.
Fiction book (2002) -
In his letters to Blin, Genet calls this "procedure, a refusal of natural sham," and describes its goal as making heard "what generally passes unperceived."
Academic text (1996) -
They might even, with great good fortune, lie here unperceived while the trackers passed by; at worst, the cover was enough to help him offer some encouragement to Eva.
Blog text (27) -
Just prior to Reichenberger's comments in the late 1950s, however, critics were beginning to identify elements in Tirso's play that intimate a heretofore unperceived complexity of meaning.
Academic text (1990) -
In that key scene, as in many other instances, the parents' attitude is denounced to the audience by the very style of the mise-en-scène and by the kind of look produced by the camera, but remains unperceived by the two innocent characters who haven't yet learned how to read people's faces and manners.
Academic text (1998) -
The choice of the word "spy" suggests a furtiveness about the observation: a removal so pronounced as to go unperceived—and yet a surveillance that is clearly intentional, even anticipatory.
Academic text (2017) -
Luces de Bohemia itself, containing both the theory and the practice of inverted classicism, acquires through its hidden reference to Sophocles a depth and coherence hitherto unperceived.
Academic text (1994) -
The beauty of the sunset went unperceived by those too focused on their phones.
Synonyms
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Not noticed because nobody listened
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Other people do not see or pay attention to it
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Not found or noticed by others
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5.1
Not expected before and causing trouble or surprise
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5.2
Not seen or noticed by anyone
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7.4
Not noticed or talked about by other people
Not seen by people or left out when people think about it
People do not notice it when it is important
Not noticed or given any attention
Antonyms
How Perceived
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unperceived starts with un- meaning 'not' and the part perceive meaning 'to notice', and perceive shares the same 'take' idea as the word capture. So unperceived literally means 'not noticed', which is why we use it for something that goes unseen or unnoticed.