unremembered

adjective

un·​re·​mem·​bered ˌən-ri-ˈmem-bərd How to pronounce unremembered (audio)
: not recorded, commemorated, or held in memory : not remembered
an obscure and unremembered poet

Examples of unremembered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These mostly unremembered Americans stood up and challenged both the fascists and the political figures who were running a protection racket for them. CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023 The context of who did what in baseball in the unremembered ’80s and into the aughties, who was suspected and who got caught, are not going to be forgotten. Christina Kahrl, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2022 Unlike many of his unremembered ’00s peers who flatly mimicked West Coast gangsta rap tropes, Hussle’s three-dimensional storytelling turned his vignettes of street life into timeless anthems. Jeff Weiss, Variety, 14 Aug. 2022 Although Stafford’s grave still receives a few visitors each year on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Dec. 7, many of these graves go unvisited and unremembered. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021 Mayberry is a whitewashed myth; there was nothing charitable about slave-owning, and all of us owe the greater portion of our comfort to the misery of the unseen and unremembered. Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2021 Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light. Deepti Hajela, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2021 Take the scene where the old ghost Chicharrón dies unremembered in the Land of the Dead. Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021 All of them wanted, by the small gesture of the Zoom memorial and larger gestures yet to come, to make sure that Mr. Saunders’s death did not go unnoticed, and that his contributions do not go unremembered. New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unremembered was in the 15th century

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“Unremembered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unremembered. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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