sight unseen
Not having seen the object beforehand.
When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.
ADJ.
all, annoying, broken, ideal, immense, unheard, unnoticed
VERB + UNSEEN
attacked, barking, descended, discovered, entered, reached, remain, reveals
UNSEEN + NOUN
anyone, dwarf, galaxy, human, it's, mankind, memory, presence
PREP.
in, in, through, towards
ADV.
heretofore, previously, repeatedly
adj
Not seen or discovered; invisible.
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
Unskilled; inexperienced.
Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.
I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.
noun
An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
I have French and Latin unseens this summer.
adjective — not anticipated
adjective — not seen or observed
Not having seen the object beforehand.
When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.
Repulsive, disturbing, or horrific sights can never be erased from memory once they have been seen.
At Dachau he was witness to real rather than abstract suffering; what has been seen cannot be unseen, nor can it be rationalized.
Alternative form of what has been seen cannot be unseen.
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
WiktionaryWere one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme go
WiktionaryWhen night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
WiktionaryI have French and Latin unseens this summer.
WiktionaryMillions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
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