unsounded

1. 1.

   situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed

   “the profound depths of the sea”

   “the dark unfathomed caves of ocean”

   “unplumbed depths of the sea”

   “remote and unsounded caverns”

   Synonymsprofoundunfathomedunplumbed

   Similardeep
2. 2.

   not made to sound

   “the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'”

   “in French certain letters are often unsounded”

   Synonymssilent

   Similarinaudible

Questions about unsounded

What does unsounded mean?

unsounded means "situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unsounded?

unsounded has 3 syllables: un-soun-ded. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for unsounded?

Close synonyms include profound, unfathomed, unplumbed, silent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unsounded a common word?

unsounded is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.