Unbroadcast

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An action that involves not transmitting or failing to communicate a particular message or signal; relating to information that has not been aired or shared publicly; describing a status where content has not been made available to an audience through broadcast media
2. Referring to the process of withholding a transmission of a show or announcement; concerning material that remains unseen or unshared with listeners or viewers; indicating a lack of public exposure for specific content or information
3. Characterizing the act of not disseminating content via traditional media channels; associated with data or programs that have not reached an audience through broadcast; denoting a situation where communication has been deliberately omitted or avoided

Etymology: The verb "broadcast" began as a farming term. Its core is "broad" (Old English "brād," meaning wide or spread out) and "cast," from Old Norse "kasta," to throw. To broadcast seed was to fling it across a field by hand rather than dropping it in rows, and that sense of scattering widely is the thread running through every later meaning. The shift to radio and television came much later, when the scattering idea was moved from seed to signals. Broadcasting sends messages out in all directions to anyone who can receive them, which is why the old agricultural image still fits. The prefix "un-" simply reverses the action, so "unbroadcast" describes material that was never sent out to an audience. Because the prefix attaches to a verb that already carries the sense of spreading widely, the result describes something kept back from being scattered to the public.

Synonyms: not aired, not transmitted

Antonyms: broadcasted, aired