UNSEEN Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

unseen

adjective

Definition of unseen

as in hidden

not seen or able to be seen unseen dangers He escaped unseen.

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Recent Examples of unseen While this represents the attic, the show’s strongest conceit involves Dillane walking unseen among the other characters, at one point even sitting on the sofa between them. — Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026 To experience the power of collective vibrations, especially for anyone who has ever felt different, unseen, or too much. — Maribeth Romslo, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026 Urmila becomes an unseen but active character who helps her husband to serve Rama. — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026 Yungblud is inviting fans behind the scenes of his blockbuster Idols era with a new exhibition in London, featuring previously unseen images captured by his photographer and creative director, Tom Pallant. — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unseen

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseen

Adjective

Working with Israeli journalist David Sheen, the filmmakers seek to track down the suspects, and in one upsetting sequence, Sheen goes undercover in Israel, wearing glasses with a hidden camera to meet Fuchs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
The hidden bottleneck Electric motors are efficient, but not perfectly so.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of hidden

Adjective

Where earlier data centers were inconspicuous, the hyperscale facilities developers want to build in Arizona — often on rural farm or desert land — are both massive and incongruous.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026
Conservators also remove inconspicuous (often inauthentic) additions.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of inconspicuous

Adjective

The speakers sounded fuzzy and indistinct during testing, even at relatively low volumes.

— Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
And then the sun slips above the horizon, and in an instant the shadows turn from indistinct gray blurs to sharp black lines.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of indistinct

Adjective

Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Through a meditative duet between the performer’s cognition and their autonomic nervous system, activities that were largely imperceptible to an outside observer became known to the performer.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of imperceptible

Adjective

Davis held a slight lead Wednesday, and the race between Murphy and Democratic challenger Raymond Smith was particularly close.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
The slight gap between the two candidates doesn’t bode well for Bass, since Raman is expected to secure a larger portion of the late-arriving ballots in the coming days.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

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