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UNNOTICED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not noticed
Example:
hoped his departure had passed unnoticed
Classified under:
Similar:
disregarded; forgotten (not noticed inadvertently)
ignored; neglected; unheeded (disregarded)
overlooked; unmarked; unnoted (not taken into account)
unobserved; unseen (not seen or observed)
unperceived; unremarked (not perceived or commented on)
Antonym:
noticed (being perceived or observed)
Context examples:
Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She instantly saw that it was not unnoticed by him, that he even observed Marianne as she quitted the room, with such astonishment and concern, as hardly left him the recollection of what civility demanded towards herself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Currently, there is great concern about the unnoticed exposure of general population to bisphenol A. The industry has sought alternatives for gradually replacing BPA in most of its applications, as is the case of the thermal paper used in tickets and receipts.
(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)
Fanny could not wonder that Edmund was at the Parsonage every morning; she would gladly have been there too, might she have gone in uninvited and unnoticed, to hear the harp; neither could she wonder that, when the evening stroll was over, and the two families parted again, he should think it right to attend Mrs. Grant and her sister to their home, while Mr. Crawford was devoted to the ladies of the Park; but she thought it a very bad exchange; and if Edmund were not there to mix the wine and water for her, would rather go without it than not.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I can understand you—(nodding at Mr. John Knightley)—your good fortune in meeting with so many of your friends at once here, delights you too much to pass unnoticed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Is that a portrait of some one you know?" asked Eliza, who had approached me unnoticed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When she saw her, indeed, surrounded only by their immediate friends in Edgar's Buildings or Pulteney Street, her change of manners was so trifling that, had it gone no farther, it might have passed unnoticed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Much that lived in Harriet's memory, many little particulars of the notice she had received from him, a look, a speech, a removal from one chair to another, a compliment implied, a preference inferred, had been unnoticed, because unsuspected, by Emma.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I did not wait to be ordered back to mine, but retreated unnoticed, as unnoticed I had left it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
