unsung
/ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
adj
Not sung.
Example Sentences
- "The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes."
- "Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area."
- "He said: "Every day, thousands of unsung women and men go to work to keep London moving and to make this city better, cleaner and safer for everyone. [...]""
- "The third hymn remained unsung."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sung English unsung From un- + sung.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/
- British English: /ˌʌnˈsʌŋ/