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Definition of "unwept" []

  • Not mourned or wept for: the unwept dead. (adjective)
  • Not yet shed: unwept tears. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unwept" in a sentence
  • ""unhonored and unsung" but also "unwept": not a single friend nor relative followed his wasted body to its final resting place."
  • "I will pass into oblivion, to the vile dust from whence I sprung, unwept, unhonored, and unsung. . ."
  • "The Aryan gene-pool dies, ‘unwept, unhonored and unsung.’"