ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] a. Not duly appreciated or valued. b. Not properly estimated.
1812. Lady Morgan, St. Clair (ed. 3), I. l. iii. 34. Those gifts on which the well-being of society depends, and which nature here has so bounteously lavished, are not only unappreciated, but almost unknown by name to the inhabitants.
1828–32. Webster.
1835. Court Mag., VI. 132. Though her powers in parts of passion, energy and pathos, are not unappreciated.
1868. Miss Braddon, Run to Earth, III. i. 5. She loves him, although she knows that her affection is unreturned, unappreciated.
1893. Liddon, etc., Life Pusey, I. xi. 271. The yet unappreciated power of Romanism.
