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unselected

/ʌnsɪˈlɛktɪd/

unselected is the simple past and past participle of unselect.

Meaning of unselect

Verb

unselect (third-person singular simple present unselects, present participle unselecting, simple past and past participle unselected)

  1. (transitive) To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
  2. (transitive) To reverse the previous selection of.

Adjective

unselected (not comparable)

  1. Not selected.
    • When you confirm the delete operation, the selected files will be deleted, but the unselected files will not.

Origin of unselected

From unselect + -ed.

From un- + selected.

Questions about unselected

What does unselected mean?
Unselected means not selected.
What is unselected the simple past and past participle of?
Unselected is the simple past and past participle of unselect.
What part of speech is unselected?
Unselected is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unselected?
Unselected is pronounced /ʌnsɪˈlɛktɪd/.

Words near unselected in the dictionary

  1. unseizing
  2. unseldom
  3. unselect
  4. unselectability
  5. unselectable
  6. unselected
  7. unselecting
  8. unselection
  9. unselections
  10. unselective
  11. unselectively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unselected (page history and authors); unselect (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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