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Unseen vs Underhand - What's the difference?

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Unseen is a related term of underhand.


As adjectives the difference between unseen and underhand

is that unseen is not seen or discovered while underhand is secret; clandestine.

As a verb unseen

is .

As a noun unseen

is an examination involving material not previously seen or studied.

As an adverb underhand is

with an underhand movement.

unseen

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not seen or discovered.
  • * {{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=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.}}
  • Unskilled; inexperienced.
    • Derived terms
    * sight unseen

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
    • What has been seen cannot be unseen .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
    • I have French and Latin unseens this summer.

    underhand

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • secret; clandestine
  • (by extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
  • thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • with an underhand movement
  • in a sly, sneaky or secret manner