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Unspoken   /ənspˈoʊkən/   Listen
Unspoken

adjective
1.
Expressed without speech.  Synonyms: mute, tongueless, wordless.  "A silent curse" , "Best grief is tongueless" , "The words stopped at her lips unsounded" , "Unspoken grief" , "Choking exasperation and wordless shame"
2.
Not made explicit.  Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced.  "Things left unsaid" , "Some kind of unspoken agreement" , "His action is clear but his reason remains unstated"



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"Unspoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... Stanton recognised as Dr. Stone, the Lincoln family physician. The doctor answered his unspoken question. "Dying," he said. "Through the brain. The bullet is now below the left eye. He may live for a ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan

... and hated him intensely. Fortunately, we say, for to that he owed his life. They could easily have killed him, but not a man of them would fire. Such a foeman must not die so easily; he must end his life in flame and torture. Such was their unspoken argument, and they dashed after him with yells of exultation, satisfied that they had one of their chief foes safely in ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... sure sun and warm seas Of Italy, I, sick, remember now What sometimes is forgot in times of ease, Our love, the always felt but unspoken vow. So send I beckoning hands from here to there, And kiss your black once, now white thin-grown hair And your stooped ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... essentially womanly than Fay's demeanour to him had become since he had set her mind at rest as to his intentions on that idyllic afternoon after the storm. (How he had set her mind at rest on that occasion he knew best.) It seemed this exquisite nature only needed the sunshine of his unspoken assurance to respond with delighted tenderness to his refined, his cultured advances. He was already beginning to write imaginary letters to his friends, on the theme of his engagement: semi-humourous academic effusions as to how he, who had so long remained ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley

... because she has a flighty way with her, and talks very strangely," Mr. Franklin went on. "And yet if she had said to, the Superintendent what she said to me, fool as he is, I'm afraid——" He stopped there, and left the rest unspoken. ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins


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