unspoken
Unexpressed anger can cause serious personal problems.
She was full of unexpressed doubts.
Patients may have unexpressed concerns about their illness.
Perhaps some things are better left unexpressed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hiding and disguising
be holed upidiom
booby trap
camo
camouflaged
cloak
drown
fig leaf
hit the deckidiom
hole up (somewhere)
illusion
illusionistically
illusively
lurk
secrete
shroud
shut
shut someone/something out
sidle
skulk
smokescreen

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Digressing and being indirect or evasive

Examples of unexpressed

unexpressed
Suppose further that in 300 (seventy-five per cent) of those 400 clauses, the unexpressed subject was identical to the subject of the preceding clause.
Those innermost worlds of thoughts and feelings that occur in the night remain unexpressed in the clinical setting unless something happens as a catalyst.
They function as the unexpressed argument in control constructions.
They may then convert both unexpressed needs or likes into expressed needs or likes, which they would present to the doctors as demands.
That is, unexpressed subjects tend to be followed by more unexpressed subjects, but expressed subjects also tend to be followed by unexpressed subjects.
Moreover, as an imperative form with an unexpressed subject, it does not specify who is supposed to not mind.
Another example is the actual but unexpressed hopes of the members of the legislature as to how the courts would interpret a statute.
This pattern is illustrated in the following examples from the two data sets, where the first mention is expressed, and subsequent mentions are unexpressed.
The "elliptical" or unexpressed elements have been supplied in the gloss in double parentheses.
This is not true and, moreover, the two ' unexpressed ' subjects have to co-refer.
The implicit argument of middles is syntactically unexpressed but semantically present, and it can figure in the interpretation of middles which express specific events.
His nature, human and/or divine, is left unexpressed at the beginning of a history of attempts to define it.
This may be because of different exposed positions and because of mutual unexpressed tacit knowledge about different ways of dealing with stress.
The ability to be the unexpressed argument in control infinitives has been considered the most conclusive of all subject tests (see section 3.5 below).
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