adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ʌnˈtəʊld/
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General-American:/ʌnˈtoʊld/
Australian:/anˈtəʉld/
homophone: untolled
rhymes with -əʊld
CMU ARPABET:AH0 N T OW1 L D
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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2
adj
Meaning 2
Not numbered or counted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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3
adj
Meaning 3
Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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4
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
of an incalculable amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
untold suffering
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History
Etymology
From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).