undreamedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈdriːmd/, U.S. /ˌənˈdrimd/ Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈdrɛm(p)t/, U.S. /ˌənˈdrɛm(p)t/ 1. Not apprehended (even) in a dream or dreams; not imagined or thought of.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] > not imagined
unconceived1434
unhoped1435
unimagined1548
unthoughted1598
undreameda1616
unimaged1648
unfancied1651
unthought1658
inconceivable1829
unbethought1855
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 567 A Course more promising, Then a wild dedication of your selues To vnpath'd Waters, vndream'd Shores. View more context for this quotation
1827 T. Moore Alciphron iii. 278 A light Leading to undreamt happiness.
1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 48 That Voice which..lifted up men's thoughts to heights undreamed before.
2. With of. (Cf. dream v.2 2.)
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1636 E. Pagitt Christianographie (ed. 2) ii. 40 Ecclesiasticks were unexempted, and deposing of Kings was then undreamed of.
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. v. 213 Even practical inventions..by undreamed of discoveries may be brought to lose the general reputation they had.
1802 S. T. Coleridge in Morning Post 4 Oct. 2/4 A new earth.., Undream'd of by the sensual and the proud.
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last ii. 65 In some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour.
1880 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 406 The great, once undreamed-of change in my life.
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