unseen

Meanings

Adjective

• Not seen or discovered; invisible.
• Unskilled; inexperienced.
• Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.

Verb

• Past participle of unsee

Noun

• An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

Origin

• From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien, German Low German unsehn, German ungesehen.
• un- + seen