unspoken

From un- +‎ spoken.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈspoʊkən/

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unspoken (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.
2. (sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.

   The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.

   • 1973 December 22, Bill, “Merry Christmas, with Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:

     I don't think we could ever have a good parent-son relationship as long as there is something as important as this that I'm hiding from you, and you (probably) are wondering about vaguely, but everything remains on a silent unspoken level.

   • 2013, Tina Marie Lees, Me‎^[1]:

     To melt with the sight of a smile that divulges the words unspoken.

• (not spoken): unsaid; unmouthed (rare, literary), untongued (rare, literary)
• (not formally stated): unacknowledged
• unwritten
• implicit

unspoken

1. past participle of unspeak

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