Word.ws English Dictionary

unsanctioned

unsanctioned adjective: not sanctioned; not approved by a sanctioning body. Also the simple past and past participle of unsanction.

Adjective

unsanctioned (comparative more unsanctioned, superlative most unsanctioned)

  1. Not sanctioned; not approved by a sanctioning body.
    • The paperback field as a whole was perferse in a more general and diffuse way, somewhat in the manner of dreams that refuse to censor desire when it strays towards socially unsanctioned ends.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 8

Also used as

unsanctioned is also the simple past and past participle of unsanction.

Forms of unsanctioned

comparativemore unsanctioned
superlativemost unsanctioned

Origin of unsanctioned

From un- + sanctioned.

Questions about unsanctioned

What does unsanctioned mean?
Unsanctioned means not sanctioned; not approved by a sanctioning body.
What part of speech is unsanctioned?
Unsanctioned is an adjective.

Words near unsanctioned in the dictionary

  1. unsanctimoniously
  2. unsanctimoniousness
  3. unsanction
  4. unsanctionability
  5. unsanctionable
  6. unsanctioned
  7. unsanctioning
  8. unsanctions
  9. unsanctity
  10. unsanctuaried
  11. unsandal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unsanctioned (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unsanctioned.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unsanctioned. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.