unsaid
unsaid is the simple past and past participle of unsay.
Meaning of unsay
Verb
unsay (third-person singular simple present unsays, present participle unsaying, simple past and past participle unsaid)
- To withdraw, retract (something said).
- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- retract
- To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
- I wish I could unsay that.
Adjective
unsaid (not comparable)
- Unspoken.
- We discussed the terms, but the methods were left unsaid.
- Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A view of formal semantics”, in Computer standards &...
Origin of unsaid
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From un- + said.
Words that rhyme with unsaid
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- dread
- wed
- ahead
- bread
- sled
- embed
- in one's stead
- inbred
- ped
- zed
- bestead
- cred
- ed
- fed
- med
- undead
- abed
- bedspread
- DMZ
- Fred
- led
- Prussian red
- retread
- spoon-fed
- unwed
- z
- antired
- aspread
- bark bed
- behead
- bested
- bled
- block head
- bred
- cabin bed
- common thread
- Cow Head
- Crow Head
- faned
- fled
- freedom bread
- fugged
- instead
- ked
- knead
- misled
- ned
- pled
Questions about unsaid
- What does unsaid mean?
- Unsaid means unspoken.
- What is unsaid the simple past and past participle of?
- Unsaid is the simple past and past participle of unsay.
- What part of speech is unsaid?
- Unsaid is an adjective.
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