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Definitions

unstated

ADJECTIVE
tacit
Synonyms
STRONGEST
implicit implied indirect unspoken
WEAK
alluded to allusive assumed hinted at inarticulate inferred intimated silent suggested undeclared understood unexpressed unsaid unvoiced wordless
Antonyms
STRONGEST
stated
WEAK
explicit express
ADJECTIVE
understood
Synonyms
STRONG
accepted appreciated implied inferred known pat presumed unsaid
WEAK
axiomatic down pat inferential on to roger tacit taken for granted undeclared unexpressed unspoken wise to wordless
Antonyms
STRONG
expressed stated
WEAK
explained explicit spoken written
ADJECTIVE
unsaid
Synonyms
STRONG
implied inferred silenced understood
WEAK
implicit left to the imagination tacit undeclared unexpressed unspoken unuttered unvoiced wordless
Antonyms
WEAK
expressed said stated
ADJECTIVE
unspoken
Synonyms
STRONGEST
implicit implied tacit
WEAK
inarticulate inferred intimated invoiced mute silent understood unexpressed unsaid unuttered
Antonyms
STRONGEST
explicit
WEAK
spoken stated

Example Sentences

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Take an area in which the unstated rejection of just-war theory has made it difficult to notice moral distinctions in how wars are fought.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

The unstated goal has been to delay a moment of final legal reckoning for as long as possible.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

What are its rules, both stated and unstated?

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

Whether this violates any parameters of their marriage is left unstated in a present-tense story that’s refreshingly uninterested in overexplaining itself, its characters and their backstories.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He leaned there, looking at us all with a remote aloofness in which I sensed an unstated questioning beneath a friendly charm.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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