untold

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   too great or numerous to be calculated or described

   The flood caused untold damage to homes along the river.

2. 2
   adj

   not narrated, disclosed, or made known

   The letters reveal an untold chapter of the explorer's life.

From Old English unteald, "not counted or reckoned," formed from un- + the past participle of tell. Tell once meant both "count" and "relate." Those two meanings survive in untold: something may be too vast to count or a story may not have been related.

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