unseen
/ʌnˈsiːn
/adjective
1Not seen or noticed: it seemed she might escape unseen...
- Derelict London is a strangely beautiful gallery of the obscure and unseen places in the great capital - one of the most original and talked about sites of 2004.
- And there was all that talk of war, war against an invisible enemy, an unseen speck on a parched landscape.
- Fresh blood covered the face from unseen wounds.
Synonyms
hidden, concealed, obscured, camouflaged, unrevealed, out of sight, invisible, not visible, imperceptible, undetectable, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unobserved, covered, masked, shrouded, veiled
1.1Not foreseen or predicted: unseen problems...
- All financial institutions offer payment protection on loans to cover any unseen loss in earning power.
- Prices reflect what must be charged to cover the unseen costs of safety precautions.
- Still, any unseen problems with the exterior of the home can be covered by a contingency clause at sale.
1.2chiefly British (Of a passage for translation in a test or examination) not previously read or prepared.This paper will contain two seen and two unseen passages of classical Persian prose for translation into English....
- There will also be an unseen passage of Latin verse to be translated.
- The examination will consist of both seen and unseen passages of both prose and poetry.
noun British
An unseen passage for translation: Latin unseens...
- To use a dictionary in a translation paper is a different kind of test from the customary idea of unseens.
- The volume concludes with a selection of unseens used in O-level papers.
- Each group of ten unseens is preceded by a vocabulary of some thirty words.