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unbespoken

unbespoken is the past participle of unbespeak.

Meaning of unbespeak

Verb

unbespeak (third-person singular simple present unbespeaks, present participle unbespeaking, simple past unbespoke, past participle unbespoken)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To unsay; to annul or cancel something that has been said.
    • […] after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and there sent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among other things, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow.1669 April 22 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 13th, 1669”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VIII...

Adjective

unbespoken (not comparable)

  1. Not having been bespoken; not specifically requested.
    • The appearance, however, of Mrs. Kittle was an unbespoken interlude, and the baronet's thirst for something new was highly gratified.1833, Fraser's Magazine, volume 8, page 286

Questions about unbespoken

What does unbespoken mean?
Unbespoken means not having been bespoken; not specifically requested.
What is unbespoken the past participle of?
Unbespoken is the past participle of unbespeak.
What part of speech is unbespoken?
Unbespoken is an adjective.

Words near unbespoken in the dictionary

  1. unbespeak
  2. unbespeaking
  3. unbespeaks
  4. unbespectacled
  5. unbespoke
  6. unbespoken
  7. unbesprinkled
  8. unbestarred
  9. unbested
  10. unbestial
  11. unbestowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbespoken (page history and authors); unbespeak (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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