untold

English

Etymology

From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

untold (not comparable)

  1. Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
  2. Not numbered or counted.
    • 2010 January 14, Simon Romero, “Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
    • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 301:
      More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
  3. Not able to be counted or measured; extremely large in scale, number or quantity.
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