untrumpeted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ trumpeted

Adjective[edit]

untrumpeted (comparative more untrumpeted, superlative most untrumpeted)

  1. Not having been trumpeted; without fanfare.
    • 2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times[1]:
      Quietly, faithfully, their late-paid, ill-paid or altogether unpaid works go into the world untrumpeted, unreviewed and unbought, to give the lie to the fallacy denounced by Annie Dillard a quarter-century ago: “that the novelists of whom we have heard are the novelists we have.”