unsung

Adjective

unsung (not comparable)

1. Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
   • The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes.
   • Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of...1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133

   Synonyms:

   unhonored, unglorified, unreputed, fameless, gloriless, inglorious, nameless, nonfamous, obscure, renownless

   Antonyms:

   sung, bait, fabled, famed, famous, famoused, iconic, irrecondite, known, legendary

2. Not sung.
   • The third hymn remained unsung.

   Synonyms:

   omitted

   Antonyms:

   sung