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unwept

unwept adjective: not wept.

Adjective

unwept (not comparable)

  1. Not wept.
    • Wish those nights not spent, / Long, unhappy nights, / Which in sighings went / Over lost delights? / Wish those tears unwept, / When you seemed unkind?1894, Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems
  2. Unmourned.
    • A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in A Christmas Carol
    • It was but a few days after the poor mother had gone to her lonely burying-place; and was laid, unwept and disregarded, in a vault full of strangers.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Origin of unwept

From un- + wept.

Questions about unwept

What does unwept mean?
Unwept means not wept.
What part of speech is unwept?
Unwept is an adjective.

Words near unwept in the dictionary

  1. unwelded
  2. unweldy
  3. unwell
  4. unwellness
  5. unwelted
  6. unwept
  7. unwestern
  8. unwesternised
  9. unwesternized
  10. unwet
  11. unwettable

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