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uncommercial

uncommercial adjective: not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.

Adjective

uncommercial (not comparable)

  1. Not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.
    • But Columbia Records executives deemed the idea uncommercial […] and instead proposed an album of lullabies.2007 January 1, Stephen Holden, “Hush, Little Baby, Mama’s Crooning”, in The New York Times

Noun

uncommercial (plural uncommercials)

  1. A spoof advertisement created for countercultural purposes.
    • This uncommercial was turned down by CBC on the grounds that it violated standards of taste […]2001, Margaret Gallagher, Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy

uncommercial meaning in Tamil

uncommercial in Tamil

வாணிகத் தொடர்பற்ற, வாணிகக் கோட்பாடுகளுக்கு மாறான

Forms of uncommercial

pluraluncommercials

Origin of uncommercial

From un- + commercial.

Words formed from uncommercial

Questions about uncommercial

What does uncommercial mean?
Uncommercial means not commercial; often specifically not commercially viable.
What is uncommercial in Tamil?
Uncommercial in Tamil is வாணிகத் தொடர்பற்ற, வாணிகக் கோட்பாடுகளுக்கு மாறான. See Uncommercial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is uncommercial?
Uncommercial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near uncommercial in the dictionary

  1. uncommentable
  2. uncommented
  3. uncommenting
  4. uncomments
  5. uncommerciable
  6. uncommercial
  7. uncommercialized
  8. uncommercially
  9. uncommercials
  10. uncommingled
  11. uncomminuted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uncommercial (page history and authors); uncommercial (Tamil 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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