unspoken

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The way they deal with 4-way stop signs isn't "unspoken," it's the frigging law [1].

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Quick take

expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unspoken.

adjective

not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"

Example sentences

The way they deal with 4-way stop signs isn't "unspoken," it's the frigging law [1].

The unspoken issue proved to be that they didn't want us to use 'barren trees' in the picture of their building.

There's unspoken machismo, which put into words would sound like this: "Nasty opaque codebase?

They are breaking the unspoken international social contract, and it is going to have worse repercussions than they yet understand.

They're an unspoken but huge player in the corporate ladder game, and there are a lot of people who are afraid that they'll lose ground if more people can seek treatment for these illnesses.

Microsoft, one of the unspoken flaws in their review system is/was that by the time a review is delivered to an employee, it is too late to fix anything.

Disregard unspoken rules, but not the small ones like not donating at the museum, think more rules like "you just can't enter this industry", "you can't just schedule a meeting with that CEO".

There's a considerable amount of unspoken pressure to get "leadership" positions in school clubs, do "leadership" activities in community service, do varsity sports or other leadership in sports, and participate in ranked competitions.

The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital.