unsounded
/' n'saundid/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Not made to sound; silent; not pronounced: Refers to a letter that is written but not spoken aloud in a word.
- Not measured or explored in depth; unfathomed; profound: Describes something, typically a body of water or a concept, that is extremely deep and has not had its depth measured or its depths fully explored.
Usage and Examples
Adjective (Not pronounced):
- In the word "honor," the initial "h" is unsounded.
- Some letters in French remain unsounded in certain grammatical contexts.
Adjective (Unfathomed):
- The submarine dove into the unsounded depths of the ocean trench.
- The poem spoke of unsounded mysteries lying within the human soul.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Can describe abstract concepts that are deep and not fully understood or explored.
- Her grief was an unsounded well of emotion.
- The philosopher pondered the unsounded implications of the theory.
Variants and Related Words
- Unsound (adj): Not healthy, firm, or reliable; flawed. (Note: This is a different word with a different meaning, not a variant of "unsounded").
- The bridge's structure was deemed unsound.
- Sound (v): To measure the depth of (water).
- They will sound the channel before the ship enters.
- Sounded (adj): Measured for depth; pronounced.
- The sounded part of the sea is charted.
- The sounded syllable is stressed.
Synonyms
- For "not pronounced": Silent, unvoiced, mute.
- For "unfathomed": Unplumbed, profound, abyssal, immeasurable, unexplored.
Antonyms
- For "not pronounced": Sounded, voiced, pronounced, audible.
- For "unfathomed": Sounded, measured, plumbed, shallow, fathomable.
Adjective
- not made to sound
- the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'
- in French certain letters are often unsounded
- 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-Thomas Gray
- unplumbed depths of the sea
- remote and unsounded caverns