unheard

Speech parts

1. unheard - Adjective

2. unheard - Verb

3. unheard - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not heard; not perceived by the ear; as, words unheard by those present.

Not granted an audience or a hearing; not allowed to speak; not having made a defense, or stated one's side of a question; disregarded; unheeded; as, to condem/ a man unheard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unbeknown still able low novel soundless rare unknown soft silent strange quiet obscure mysterious overlooked
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Antonyms

known large heard BIG familiar suspected
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Phrases with the word

unheard mind

Examples

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King Jr.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice. Baruch Spinoza

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. Malcolm Lowry

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. Peter Singer

Riot is the voice of the unheard. Maxine Waters

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. Amy Tan

Close letter words and terms

unheaped unhear unhearable unheard mind unheard-of unhearing