untold

Definition

Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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.""
• "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."