Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not told or revealed.
- adjective Beyond description or enumeration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not told; not related; not revealed. Not numbered; uncounted; that cannot be reckoned: as, money untold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not told; not related; not revealed.
- adjective Not numbered or counted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not told; not related; not revealed.
- adjective Not numbered or counted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of an incalculable amount
Etymologies
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Examples
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The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine.
Chapter X 2010
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Kristi, you and your FWAD bless my life in untold ways!
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Or even worse, then beats up other geeks without the money to fight any legal bullying (especially those who come up with a better offering, and who thus threaten the existing business that owns your technology, thus impeding progress and impoverishing the worlds in untold ways forever).
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The previous years had resulted in untold damage to the economic foundations of the countries in which I did business.
Governing in the 21st Century: the Mike Harris Government and Lessons from Ontario 2000
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The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine.
Chapter X 1910
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Now, throughout the Christian world, in untold forms of version, paraphrase, and imitation, by Papists and
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How it got there, and how Isse ended up here, is a story that the US government probably would prefer to remain untold.
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There then have I found all that the world denied me; there have I realized the yearning and the aspiration within me; there have I coined the untold poetry into the Felt, the Seen! "
The Pilgrims of the Rhine Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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There's a good reason it's "untold:" historians and good journalists rely on evidence.
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There's a good reason it's "untold:" historians and good journalists rely on evidence.
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