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untrumpeted

untrumpeted adjective: not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.

Adjective

untrumpeted (comparative more untrumpeted, superlative most untrumpeted)

  1. Not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.
    • Quietly, faithfully, their late-paid, ill-paid or altogether unpaid works go into the world untrumpeted, unreviewed and unbought, to give the lie to the fallacy denounced by Annie Dillard a quarter-century ago: “that the novelists of whom we have heard are the novelists we have.”2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times

Forms of untrumpeted

comparativemore untrumpeted
superlativemost untrumpeted

Origin of untrumpeted

From un- + trumpeted.

Questions about untrumpeted

What does untrumpeted mean?
Untrumpeted means not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.
What part of speech is untrumpeted?
Untrumpeted is an adjective.

Words near untrumpeted in the dictionary

  1. untruism
  2. untruisms
  3. untruly
  4. untrumpable
  5. untrumped
  6. untrumpeted
  7. untruncated
  8. untrunk
  9. untrunked
  10. untrunking
  11. untrunks

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