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unapproved

unapproved adjective: not approved.

Adjective

unapproved (comparative more unapproved, superlative most unapproved)

  1. Not approved.
    • The unapproved imports were sent back to the originating country.
    • The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour. The latter has been found to be an unapproved food additive.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN
  2. (archaic) Not proven.

unapproved meaning in Urdu and Kannada

unapproved in Urdu

بےمنظوری, بلامنظوری کے, نامنظور کردہ, ناپسندیدہ, رد کردہ

unapproved in Kannada

ಅನುಮೋದಿಸದ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ನೀಡದ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ಪಡೆಯದ

Forms of unapproved

comparativemore unapproved
superlativemost unapproved

Origin of unapproved

From un- + approved.

Questions about unapproved

What does unapproved mean?
Unapproved means not approved.
What is unapproved in Urdu?
Unapproved in Urdu is بےمنظوری, بلامنظوری کے, نامنظور کردہ. See Unapproved meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unapproved?
Unapproved is an adjective.

Words near unapproved in the dictionary

  1. unappropriative
  2. unapprovable
  3. unapproval
  4. unapprovals
  5. unapprove
  6. unapproved
  7. unapproves
  8. unapproving
  9. unapprovingly
  10. unapproximated
  11. unaproned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unapproved (page history and authors); unapproved (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unapproved (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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