Used in a Sentence

untold

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

Editorial note

So, almost any price is worth a tool that is used constantly and delivers untold benefit.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

adjective

Not numbered or counted.

adjective

(literary) Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for untold.

adjective

Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

adjective

Not numbered or counted.

adjective

(literary) Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.

Example sentences

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So, almost any price is worth a tool that is used constantly and delivers untold benefit.

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It's also good to remember that deer, bear, and untold numbers of other species crap all over the trail also.

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The graves of the untold millions (billions?) of systems compromised by malware injected through statically linked zlib and libjpeg blobs grow restless...

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So my various devices can talk to each other, but it took Sony and Intel an untold amount of resources to achieve.

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Because it goes without saying they would do so, otherwise those e-mails carrying untold sensitive information would have been routed in the clear.

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And the system has been running that way for untold millennia.

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It removes untold among of noise from your eventual analysis.

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Maybe there is some untold, yet upcoming story behind this.

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For every story of a woman who was not promoted in IT, there are probably 20 untold stories of men who were not promoted in IT.

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Aside from fixing an untold number of implementation bugs, the replacement caught several usage bugs as well, due to actually having some error checking built in.

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...or that it has contributed to untold sufferring of an entire generation in the Mediterranean countries due to an ill-conceived currency union.

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But you make it sound like that means that this gesture is irrelevant and meaningless, when that is very much not the case; for there is an untold amount of learning and growth that they can get from this.

Quote examples

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Have you read "The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey" by Richard Whittle?

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If anyone is interested, Tom Holland's "Islam the untold story" is a fascinating introduction to this sacrilegious line of thought.

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"Diggin' in the Carts" is the untold story of the men and women behind the most globally influential music to come out of Japan.

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In that time, he used up untold resources while we tried to find work he could actually do, people helping him "just in case he just needed a helping hand" and so on.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use untold in a sentence?

So, almost any price is worth a tool that is used constantly and delivers untold benefit.

What does untold mean?

Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

What part of speech is untold?

untold is commonly used as adjective.