Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not directly evident; invisible.
- adjective Not previously read or studied.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not seen; not discovered.
- Invisible; not discoverable: as, the unseen God. Unskilled; inexperienced.
- noun That which is unseen; something designed not to be seen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not seen or discovered.
- adjective obsolete Unskilled; inexperienced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
unsee - adjective Not seen or discovered.
- adjective Unskilled; inexperienced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
- adjective not observed
Etymologies
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Examples
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My state of mind, which refers ... he proceeds to argue that the whole _either_ to unseen he himself is outside its intelligence, _or something sacred pale because he refers which man has never had any all these strange phenomena to conception of_, proves me to _unseen spiritual be out of the pale of the intelligence_.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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They perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.
The New York Public Library: Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight The New York Public Library 2011
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They perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.
The New York Public Library: Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight The New York Public Library 2011
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They perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.
The New York Public Library: Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight The New York Public Library 2011
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They perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.
The New York Public Library: Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight The New York Public Library 2011
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But Barofsky focuses his report, a quarterly update to Congress and the public, on what he identifies as the unseen costs and risks of TARP.
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What remains "unseen" is any conclusive evidence that environmental protection causes economic harm, while experience shows that common-sense regulations can stimulate innovation and job creation.
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Many international genre films remain unseen or get very limited exposure in this part of the country.
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What's unseen is what the shopkeeper would have done with the money had the vandal not broken his window.
Hurricanes and Broken Windows, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But unseen is the loss of whatever would have been done with the money instead of replacing the window.
Economic Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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January 8, 2011