Unseen vs Sly - What's the difference?
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Not seen or discovered.
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, title= Unskilled; inexperienced.
An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Slyly.
Unseen is a related term of sly.
As adjectives the difference between unseen and sly
is that unseen is not seen or discovered while sly is artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.As a verb unseen
is .As a noun unseen
is an examination involving material not previously seen or studied.As an adverb sly is
slyly.unseen
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=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. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
Derived terms
* sight unseenEtymology 2
Verb
(head)- What has been seen cannot be unseen .
Noun
(en noun)- I have French and Latin unseens this summer.