Used in a Sentence

unseen

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for unseen.

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Quick take

An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of unseen gathered in one view.

noun

An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

adjective

Not seen or discovered; invisible.

adjective

Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unseen.

Example sentences

1

For example, your extensive comment on copy #2 goes unseen by those reading comments for this copy only...

2

So you feel this way about people you dealt with over the phone long distance, sight unseen.

3

This design-decision corresponds to the before unseen degree of callback hell that is Node's primary pain point.

4

We have curated for one year some of the best and unseen African or African-descendant contents.

5

And absolutely no one expects you to be a slave or to accept offers sight unseen.

6

We did our first small manufacturing runs sight-unseen with our initial partners and everything went well.

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This should allow them to take new, unseen shapes and modify them in a similar way.

8

Perhaps the learning algorithm can't generalize the feature to new unseen private make servers.

9

Taxis are famous for racial discrimination while Uber drivers accept fares sight unseen.

10

Next you'll be telling me that burning coal has unseen consequences.

11

Since they have invested a tremendous amount of money in such a project, they can obviously see some useful scenario which is still unseen from Soviet eyes.

12

As long as the quality of mobile apps is so varied, it really is hard to convince potential customers to pay any amount of money sight unseen.

Quote examples

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More alarmingly, "shadow" bank failures may occur unseen, or structural problems that would normally be covered or speculated about by the media suddenly rear their head.

2

"Unseen, never-before-detected form of matter which doesn't interact with any other matter except gravitationally?" Maybe, but that seems to be the hard way to get an answer.

3

The second point about trust doesn't directly flow from the previous sentence (which would make it sound like he's saying something like "I trust this person sight-unseen"); instead, he's just meaning that cryptography (like any technology) ultimately requires you to trust someone at some point, because you can't audit every line of every piece of software and firmware you're sitting on top of.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use unseen in a sentence?

For example, your extensive comment on copy #2 goes unseen by those reading comments for this copy only...

What does unseen mean?

An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

What part of speech is unseen?

unseen is commonly used as noun, adjective.