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unelected

unelected adjective: not elected. Also the simple past and past participle of unelect.

Adjective

unelected (comparative more unelected, superlative most unelected)

  1. Not elected.
    • “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.”2023 December 20, Marshall Cohen, “Fact check: Are Colorado Supreme Court justices ‘unelected,’ as GOP has claimed?”, in CNN

Also used as

unelected is also the simple past and past participle of unelect.

Forms of unelected

comparativemore unelected
superlativemost unelected

Origin of unelected

From un- + elected.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from unelected

Questions about unelected

What does unelected mean?
Unelected means not elected.
What part of speech is unelected?
Unelected is an adjective.

Words near unelected in the dictionary

  1. unelect
  2. unelectability
  3. unelectable
  4. unelectables
  5. unelectably
  6. unelected
  7. unelectedness
  8. unelecting
  9. unelection
  10. unelections
  11. unelective

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