UNUTTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unuttered mean? 

• UNUTTERED (adjective)
  The adjective UNUTTERED has 1 sense:

1. not made explicit

  Familiarity information: UNUTTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNUTTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not made explicit

Synonyms:

unexpressed; unsaid; unspoken; unstated; unuttered; unverbalised; unverbalized; unvoiced

Context example:

his action is clear but his reason remains unstated

Similar:

implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)

 Context examples 

And always was Martin's maddening and unuttered demand: Why didn't you feed me then?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, John Thornton would reverently exclaim, God! you can all but speak!

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them—Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And now, when I speak, you check the thought unuttered on your lips and hang on my lips and pay respectful attention to whatever I choose to say.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)