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say it: uhn-SEEN
unseen is an adjective and noun meaning "not seen or perceived". It carries 4 recorded senses.
not seen or observed
“managed to slip away unobserved”
“unseen forces at work”
not anticipated
“unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development”
“unforeseen circumstances”
“a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy”
“like a bolt out of the blue”
“unseen problems”
a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unseen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.