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unobserved

unobserved adjective: not seen or observed.

Adjective

unobserved (not comparable)

  1. Not seen or observed.
    • Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5
    • The relation of the logit formula to the distribution of unobserved utility (as opposed to the characteristics of choice probabilities) was developed by Marley, as cited by Luce and Suppes (1965), who showed that the extreme value distribution leads to the logit formula.2002, chapter 3, in Behavioral Models, UC Berkeley, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2022, page 38

Adverb

unobserved (not comparable)

  1. Whilst not being seen or observed.
    • The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.1960 April, A. W. Bennett, “A Locomotive Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 273

unobserved meaning in Tamil and Urdu

unobserved in Tamil

கண்டுகொள்ளாத

unobserved in Urdu

مخفی, نہاں, پوشیدہ

Origin of unobserved

From un- + observed.

Words formed from unobserved

Questions about unobserved

What does unobserved mean?
Unobserved means not seen or observed.
What is unobserved in Tamil?
Unobserved in Tamil is கண்டுகொள்ளாத. See Unobserved meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unobserved?
Unobserved can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near unobserved in the dictionary

  1. unobservably
  2. unobservance
  3. unobservant
  4. unobservantly
  5. unobservantness
  6. unobserved
  7. unobservedly
  8. unobserving
  9. unobservingly
  10. unobsessed
  11. unobsessive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unobserved (page history and authors); unobserved (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unobserved (Urdu 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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