unprecedented
Syllables: un·pre·ce·dent·ed/ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
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Australia/ʌnˈpɹiːsədɛntəd/
unprecedented adjective: never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
Adjective
unprecedented (not comparable)
- Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
- With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along...2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
- On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27
unprecedented meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
unprecedented in Hindi
- never before seen or done, without precedent
- अपूर्वता apūrvatā
unprecedented in Tamil
- இதுவரை இல்லாத, இதற்கு முன் நிகழ்ந்திராத
unprecedented in Urdu
- ان سنا, انوکھا, بےمثال
unprecedented in Bengali
- never before seen or done, without precedent
- অপূর্ব opurbo
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- unprecedented in Malayalam
- അഭൂതപൂർവ്വമായ, പണ്ടുണ്ടാകാത്ത, കീഴ്ക്കടനടപ്പില്ലാത്ത, മുൻപുണ്ടായിട്ടില്ലാത്ത
- unprecedented in Kannada
- ಹಿಂದೆ ನಡೆದಿರದ, ಹೊಸ, ಅಭೂತಪೂರ್ವ, ಹಿಂದೆಂದೂ ಕಂಡಿಲ್ಲದ
- unprecedented in Arabic
- غَيْر مَسْبُوق ḡayr masbūq
- unprecedented in Persian
- بیسابقه bi-sâbeqe
Examples of unprecedented in a sentence
- For a PR campaign like never before, one needs a consultancy of unprecedented scope and power.
- Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.
- The referee ruled the unprecedented play fair game.
Origin of unprecedented
From un- + precedent + -ed.
Words formed from unprecedented
Questions about unprecedented
- What does unprecedented mean?
- Unprecedented means never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
- What is unprecedented in Hindi?
- Unprecedented in Hindi is अपूर्वता (apūrvatā). See Unprecedented meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unprecedented?
- Unprecedented is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unprecedented?
- Unprecedented is pronounced /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/.
Words near unprecedented in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unprecedented (page history and authors); unprecedented (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unprecedented (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unprecedented (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unprecedented (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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