What does "untold" mean?
Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
Untold
/ʌnˈtəʊld/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
- Grammar: untold is listed as adj.
- Nearest alternatives: all comprehensive, all inclusive, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive.
- Useful contrasts: disclosed, few, limited.
- Usage evidence: All this time we kept an untold secret.
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not told; not related; not revealed; secret. not-comparable
"As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion.""
- 2 Not numbered or counted. not-comparable
"Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble."
- 3 Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible. literary, not-comparable
"The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag."
Adjective
- 1 too much to be measured wordnet
Synonyms
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Example
"All this time we kept an untold secret."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "untold"?
Common synonyms include: all comprehensive, all inclusive, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, arcane, at issue.
How do you use "untold" in a sentence?
All this time we kept an untold secret.
How do you pronounce "untold"?
Pronounced /ʌnˈtəʊld/.
Etymology
From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).