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unpopular

unpopular adjective: lacking popularity.

Adjective

unpopular (comparative more unpopular, superlative most unpopular)

  1. Lacking popularity.
    • an unpopular opinion
  2. Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
    • And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”2025 July 13, Aaron Blake, “Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025

unpopular meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

unpopular in Hindi

अलोकप्रिय, गैर-लोकप्रिय

unpopular in Tamil

மக்கள் விரும்பாத, செல்வாக்கற்ற

unpopular in Marathi

अलोकप्रिय

unpopular in Urdu

lacking popularity
غیرمقبول
More languagesFewer languages
unpopular in Bengali
অজনপ্রিয় ojonpriẏo
unpopular in Telugu
జనాదరణ లేనిది
unpopular in Malayalam
ജനപ്രീതിയില്ലാത്ത, ജനസമ്മതിയില്ലാത്ത, ജനപ്രിയമല്ലാത്ത, ജനാഭിമുഖ്യമില്ലാത്ത
unpopular in Kannada
ಜನಪ್ರಿಯವಲ್ಲದ janapriyavallada
unpopular in Punjabi
ਗੈਰ-ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ, ਗ਼ੈਰ-ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ, ਅਲੋਕਪ੍ਰਿਯ
unpopular in Gujarati
અલોકપ્રિય
unpopular in Nepali
अलोकप्रिय

Examples of unpopular in a sentence

  • The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies.
  • He was a moper and a complainer, and, as such, was quite unpopular at parties.
  • His renouncement of his previous position, once it had proved unpopular, did not help his candidacy.

All 29 example sentences with unpopular

Antonyms of unpopular

Forms of unpopular

comparativemore unpopular
superlativemost unpopular

Origin of unpopular

From un- + popular.

Words formed from unpopular

Questions about unpopular

What does unpopular mean?
Unpopular means lacking popularity.
What is unpopular in Hindi?
Unpopular in Hindi is अलोकप्रिय, गैर-लोकप्रिय. See Unpopular meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unpopular?
Unpopular is an adjective.

Words near unpopular in the dictionary

  1. unpoping
  2. unpoppable
  3. unpopped
  4. unpopping
  5. unpops
  6. unpopular
  7. unpopularise
  8. unpopularised
  9. unpopularises
  10. unpopularising
  11. unpopularities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unpopular (page history and authors); unpopular (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpopular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpopular (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); অজনপ্রিয় (Bengali) (page history and authors); unpopular (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpopular (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unpopular (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpopular (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpopular (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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