unspoken
English
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editunspoken (not comparable)
- (sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.
- (sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
- The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.
- 1973 December 22, Bill, “Merry Christmas, with Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:
- I don't think we could ever have a good parent-son relationship as long as there is something as important as this that I'm hiding from you, and you (probably) are wondering about vaguely, but everything remains on a silent unspoken level.
- 2013, Tina Marie Lees, Me[1]:
- To melt with the sight of a smile that divulges the words unspoken.
Synonyms
edit- (not spoken): unsaid; unmouthed (rare, literary), untongued (rare, literary)
- (not formally stated): unacknowledged
- unwritten
- implicit
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editnot spoken; not said
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not formally articulated or stated
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Verb
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