What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Private vs Unsee - What's the difference?

private | unsee |

As an adjective private

is belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.

As a noun private

is the lowest rank of the army.

As a verb unsee is

to undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.

private

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • Not in governmental office or employment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
  • Not publicly known; not open; secret.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
  • Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
  • Not accessible by the public.
  • Not traded by the public.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • Secretive; reserved.
  • (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.

    • Synonyms

    * (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):

    Antonyms

    * public

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lowest rank of the army.
  • A soldier of the rank of private.
  • (in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
  • (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
  • (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
  • (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What have kings, that privates have not too?
  • A private lesson.
    • If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .

    Synonyms

    * (genitals) bits, private parts

    Derived terms

    * in private * privacy * private language * private parts * private property * private stock * public-private partnership

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    unsee

    English

    Verb

  • To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
  • * 1829 , Robert Taylor, "Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin", in The Lion , volume IV, number 10, page 304:
    • We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen , it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.
  • * 1897 March 20, (George Bernard Shaw), "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw ,(SIC) Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215:
    • I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.
  • * 1969 , Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap , page 180:
    • once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.
  • * 1977 , (Stephen King), :
    • Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.
  • * 1991 , E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics , page 94:
    • Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen ” after one notices the alternative, an old crone

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs