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# unseen

«unseen» in Mova's school dictionary: **not seen or not noticed by anyone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unseen means not seen or not noticed by anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#m1)

2) In school, an unseen text or test is one you have not looked at before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a character slips away unseen, or an unseen danger waits. In school, «unseen poetry» or an «unseen passage» is a text pupils read for the first time in a test. In science, germs and air are unseen but real. Phrases: «sight unseen», «go unseen», «unseen danger», «unseen passage».

### examples

- The mouse crept past the cat unseen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x1)
- Germs are unseen, so wash your hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x2)
- We read an unseen poem in the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x3)
- An unseen hand pushed the door open in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x4)
- The fox stayed unseen in the long grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x5)
- Many deep-sea animals live unseen by people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x6)
- Only by night did she creep out unseen to procure food for her kittens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/#x7)

### note

Adjective or adverb; «un-» + «seen». «Sight unseen» means without looking first. Unseen does not mean not there: air and germs are unseen but real.

### In the corpora

- [Most volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor, along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/4/)
- [Most of the Earth's volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor along mid-ocean ridges.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unseen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.