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Unspoken   /ənspˈoʊkən/   Listen
Unspoken

adjective
1.
Expressed without speech.  Synonyms: mute, tongueless, wordless.  "A silent curse" , "Best grief is tongueless" , "The words stopped at her lips unsounded" , "Unspoken grief" , "Choking exasperation and wordless shame"
2.
Not made explicit.  Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced.  "Things left unsaid" , "Some kind of unspoken agreement" , "His action is clear but his reason remains unstated"



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"Unspoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... health I shall not trust myself to speak: you must know what is unspoken. I should have been most happy to see you if but for a minute—and if next Wednesday, I might take your ...
— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... were in front of the mine entrance. By unspoken agreement they moved to a position directly in front of the pool. If the ghost appeared, it would be almost over their heads. The shelf was too high for them to see into the water, but they were in a ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... forward, a sort of guarded astonishment in his attitude, to peer at the childish face in the fire-glow. Then he seemed to remember that it was just a bit of a woods-waif who had spoken. But Caleb, who was lazy-brained in some matters, sensed that Steve had put into words Allison's own unspoken thought, just as Allison at that moment voiced the question which he was ...
— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans

... laden with the blossoms whose perfume had for many months been holding the songstress there in patient expectation. Leonora would never know he had been near her in the silent orchard bathed in moonlight, taking leave of her with the unspoken anguish of an eternal farewell, as to a dream vanishing ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... seconded him with quiet humor, and together they caused even the mother's face to relax its troubled lines, while Viola, yielding to a sense of freedom and of youth, shook off all constraint, responding to Morton's unspoken suggestion, thinking only of him and of the secure, bright world in which he dwelt (and in which he seemed so large and so handsome a figure), and in this confidence and comfort they came to the mixing of the salad, which ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland


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