unseen

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
    — I have French and Latin unseens this summer.
动词 v.
  1. past participle of unsee form-of,participle,past
    — What has been seen cannot be unseen.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not seen or discovered; invisible. not-comparable
    — You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
  2. Unskilled; inexperienced. not-comparable
  3. Not hitherto noticed; unobserved. not-comparable
    — I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

词形变化

unseens plural

词汇关系

衍生词
sight unseen unsight unseen

词源

词源 1
From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien (“unseen”), German Low German unsehn (“unseen”), German ungesehen (“unseen”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English un-
Arabic سِين (sīn)bor.
English seen
English unseen
From un- + seen.
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