Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not talked or spoken.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not talked; not mentioned; -- often with of.

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  • adjective Not talked (used with prepositions, e.g. untalked-of, untalked-to).

Etymologies

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un- +‎ talked

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Examples

  • In the words of Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., of Johns Hopkins, Vivien Thomas is the most untalked about, unappreciated, unknown giant in the African-American community.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • In the words of Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., of Johns Hopkins, Vivien Thomas is the most untalked about, unappreciated, unknown giant in the African-American community.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Imagine five of the children living with books in family that is able to read to most of its children every night, but leaving the other child unread to, untalked and unsung to, unhugged, or propped before a television screen or video game that feeds him violence and sex and racially-and gender-charged messages, intellectual pabulum, interrupted only by ceaseless ads for material things beyond the child's grasp.

    Marian Wright Edelman: America's Sixth Child 2009

  • My next purchase: An Ipod Touch -- the best, most untalked about PDA out there!

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • My next purchase: An Ipod Touch -- the best, most untalked about PDA out there!

    The Fab Five of Time & Life Management 2008

  • Do you support Dandy Don Rumsfeld who bent to pressure from Bin Laden and pulled out American bases from Saudi Arabia in the most untalked about “cut and run” maneuver in US military history?

    Think Progress » Bush: American Foreign Policy No Longer Seeks to ‘Manage Calm’ 2006

  • It ` s one of the huge, oftentimes unseen and untalked about consequences of drug use in the U.S.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008 2008

  • Parliament IN DUE TIME, which, I suppose, means after the respective ratifications of all the contracting parties, that some untalked of and unexpected advantage will break out in our treaty with France; St. Lucia, at least.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • And it was not as though they all fell down into the cathedral precincts hitherto unknown and untalked of.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • They would be in a clean, new atmosphere, unknown and untalked about.

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

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