Unseen
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
"I have French and Latin unseens this summer."
- 2 a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit wordnet
- 1 past participle of unsee form-of, participle, past
"What has been seen cannot be unseen."
- 1 Not seen or discovered; invisible. not-comparable
"You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream."
- 2 Unskilled; inexperienced. not-comparable
- 3 Not hitherto noticed; unobserved. not-comparable
"I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself."
- 1 not anticipated wordnet
- 2 unnoticed wordnet
- 3 not seen or perceived wordnet
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More examples"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep."
Etymology
From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien (“unseen”), German Low German unsehn (“unseen”), German ungesehen (“unseen”).
From un- + seen.
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