Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not honored or praised; uncelebrated: an unsung hero.
- adj. Not sung: unsung hymns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not sung; not recited musically, as a song: as, “half yet remains unsung,” Not celebrated in verse or song.
Wiktionary
- adj. Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
- adj. Not sung.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not famous or acclaimed
- adj. having value that is not acknowledged
Etymologies
- un- + sung (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With one of what I call the unsung heroes of the Unix command line, the "fold" command.”
“Berman, a friend of David Plouffe, has been referred to as the "unsung hero" of Barack Obama's 2008 primary victory over Hillary Clinton.”
The Huffington Post: Brendan DeMelle: Hillary Clinton's Keystone XL Crony Lobbyists Problem
“The caregiver is often referred to as the unsung hero.”
“The party's showing was being dubbed the "unsung success story" and "remarkable" given the cuts being pushed through by the Coalition Government.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“KING: Up next, the man Barack Obama calls the unsung hero of his presidential campaign.”
“And for these efforts, theydeserve to becalled unsung heroes of the Philippines.”
Overseas Filipino Workers: The Unsung Heroes of the Philippines
“Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male.”
“Consider that in September, an ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey found that 56 percent of Americans preferred a government-run universal health system "like Medicare" to our current system-a development that Marcia Angell called the unsung development of 2006 in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.”
“So often described as an 'unsung hero', Hill's return from injury during the 2003 World Cup helped spur England on to victory.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The hat has often gone to what the members of the selection committee refer to as unsung heroes - for scoring their first goal for the team or of the season.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘unsung’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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words for skymandr
Found a word that you think might suit me?
kettle logic, just deserts, mother tincture, miasma, electrohomeopathy, teratology, daytime parahypna..., microbarom, hypergelast, skeuomorph, contraparallelogram, zenzizenzizenzic and 16 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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mccaff's Words
schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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defenestrate, antipenultimate, emetophobe, emetophobia, clusterfuck, assclown, pamphlyer, distatch, arielism, scallop, regardless, unsung and 43 more...
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