unsaid

¹

[ uhn-sed ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unsay.

unsaid

²

[ uhn-sed ]

adjective

1. not said; thought but not mentioned or discussed; unstated:

   It was best left unsaid.

unsaid

/ ʌnˈsɛd /

adjective

1. not said or expressed; unspoken

Word History and Origins

Origin of unsaid¹

before 1000; Middle English unsa ( i ) d, Old English unsǣd; un- ¹, said ¹

Example Sentences

Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s almost like the unsaid - you don’t have to say. You just know what each other’s thinking.”

From BBC

“There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left undone, which I think is a pretty great place to reach when you're at the end of your life.”

From BBC

Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.

From BBC

Left unsaid was the high possibility that Johnson would be forced to cut a deal with Democrats to avoid a shutdown, a scenario that right-wing Republicans are fretting is the speaker's unwanted but unavoidable endgame.

From Salon