untold
/ʌnˈtoʊld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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
- "As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion.""
- "Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble."
- "More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary."
- "The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag."
- "Trains are kept on the move in circumstances when, for example, a fifteen-minute hold-up to carry out a repair task at one attempt would cause untold upset to a service running at close intervals."
- "Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: unteald
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnˈtoʊld/
- British English: /ʌnˈtəʊld/