• Unseen

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -iːn

    Origin 1

    Full definition of unseen

    Adjective

    unseen

    1. Not seen or discovered.
      • 2013-06-14, Jonathan Freedland, Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
    2. Unskilled; inexperienced.

    Derived terms

    Origin 2

    Verb

    unseen
    1. Past participle of unseeWhat has been seen cannot be unseen.

    Noun

    unseen

    (plural unseens)
    1. An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.I have French and Latin unseens this summer.
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