unheard
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ʌnˈhɜː(ɹ)d/
Adjective

unheard (not comparable)

  1. Not heard.
    Her cries for help remained unheard.
  2. Not listened to.
    • What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!
  3. Not known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
      Nor was his name unheard or unadored.
Translations Translations
  • Russian: неуслы́шанный
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of unhear



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