Unspoken
/ʌnˈspoʊkən/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 past participle of unspeak form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Not spoken; not said. not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes
- 2 Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood. not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes
"The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty."
Adjective
- 1 expressed without speech wordnet
- 2 not made explicit wordnet
Example
More examples"Their marriage simmered with discontentment and unspoken anger."
Etymology
From un- + spoken.