1. not expressed clearly in words; not spoken or stated
2. not having joints or segments; not divided into distinct parts
Usage: technical; biology

Examples

• Her unarticulated fears about the future kept her awake at night.
• The team’s unarticulated concerns about the project eventually led to its failure.
• He had an unarticulated sense that something was wrong.
• The policy left many unarticulated assumptions about employee behavior.
• The fossil showed an unarticulated spine with no clear joint divisions.
• The biologist studied the unarticulated structure of the primitive organism.