untold

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not told

   Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.

   • 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."
2. 2

   Not numbered or counted.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described

   Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.

   • Trains are kept on the move in circumstances when, for example, a fifteen-minute hold-up to carry out a repair task at one attempt would cause untold upset to a service running at close intervals.
   • Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA.

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