unsung en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sung English unsung From un- + sung.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
He said: "Every day, thousands of unsung women and men go to work to keep London moving and to make this city better, cleaner and safer for everyone. [...]"
2019 November 23, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes.
Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:
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(not-comparable) Not sung.
The third hymn remained unsung.
Antonyms
notable · sung · noted · famed · known · irrecondite · well-known · recognizable · proverbial · bait · renowned · noteworthy · storied · fabled · iconic · famous · sung · famoused · mere · legendary
Deriveds
Synonyms
ungloriful · unfamous · gloriless · unreputed · obscure · unnoted · fameless · unhonored · unnoticed · unreputed · nonfamous · unglorified · omitted · nameless · unhonored · unrenowned · renownless · unglorious · unsung · inglorious · unglorified
Translations (12)
nl onbezongen (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · ru невоспетый (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · it sconosciuto (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · it non riconosciuto (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · el άψαλτος (not sung) · mk неопеан (not sung) · cs neopěvovaný (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · nl ongezongen (not sung) · mk неопеан (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · el ατραγούδιστος (not sung) · el παραγνωρισμένος (which has not been lauded or appreciated) · el ανεξύμνητος (not sung)