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unattested

unattested adjective: not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.

Adjective

unattested (comparative more unattested, superlative most unattested)

  1. Not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.
    • The plural form of this noun must surely have existed in the speech of medieval farmers, although it is unattested in surviving books from the period.

unattested meaning in Telugu and Kannada

unattested in Telugu

unattested, not witnessed
అసాక్షికము asākṣikamu

unattested in Kannada

ದೃಢೀಕರಿಸದ, ಪ್ರಮಾಣಿತವಾಗದ

Forms of unattested

comparativemore unattested
superlativemost unattested

Origin of unattested

From un- + attested.

Words formed from unattested

Questions about unattested

What does unattested mean?
Unattested means not supported by attestation; lacking supporting evidence in the form of assurance from an authority.
What is unattested in Telugu?
Unattested in Telugu is అసాక్షికము (asākṣikamu). See Unattested meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is unattested?
Unattested is an adjective.

Words near unattested in the dictionary

  1. unattentively
  2. unattentiveness
  3. unattenuated
  4. unattestability
  5. unattestable
  6. unattested
  7. unattestedness
  8. unattire
  9. unattired
  10. unattires
  11. unattiring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unattested (page history and authors); అసాక్షికము (Telugu) (page history and authors); unattested (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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