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In some senses, untold is marked as literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
last, last, secret
VERB + UNTOLD
bearing, cannot, caused, convey, hidden, kept, narrates, promised
UNTOLD + NOUN
amount, consequences, death, devastation, glory, indian, misery, multitude
PREP.
than
ADV.
heretofore
adj
Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."
Not numbered or counted.
Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag.
Trains are kept on the move in circumstances when, for example, a fifteen-minute hold-up to carry out a repair task at one attempt would cause untold upset to a service running at close intervals.
adjective — too much to be measured
As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."
WiktionaryHuge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
WiktionaryMore importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
WiktionaryAll this time we kept an untold secret.
Tatoeba · #1021923This remains untold.
Tatoeba · #3147135They caused an untold amount of death and destruction.
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In some senses, untold is marked as literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.