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English
Etymology
un- + sung
Pronunciation
Adjective
unsung (not comparable)
- Which has not been lauded or appreciated.
The backstage crew of the movie were the unsung heroes.
1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
2019 November 23, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:He said: "Every day, thousands of unsung women and men go to work to keep London moving and to make this city better, cleaner and safer for everyone. [...]"
- Not sung.
The third hymn remained unsung.
Derived terms
Translations
which has not been lauded or appreciated