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unselective

unselective adjective: not selective; open and inclusive.

Adjective

unselective (not comparable)

  1. Not selective; open and inclusive.
    • The 1851 Exhibition was international and unselective; the 1951 exhibitions, however, will be entirely British.1951 May, “Railway and the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1951”, in Railway Magazine, page 300
    • “I’m preaching the virtues of the unselective small colleges, the ones that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” Mr. Pope said in an interview at his apartment in a retirement community here in the suburbs of northern Virginia.2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times

unselective meaning in Tamil

unselective in Tamil

தெரிவிலா

Origin of unselective

From un- + selective.

Words formed from unselective

Words that rhyme with unselective

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Questions about unselective

What does unselective mean?
Unselective means not selective; open and inclusive.
What is unselective in Tamil?
Unselective in Tamil is தெரிவிலா. See Unselective meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unselective?
Unselective is an adjective.

Words near unselective in the dictionary

  1. unselectable
  2. unselected
  3. unselecting
  4. unselection
  5. unselections
  6. unselective
  7. unselectively
  8. unselectiveness
  9. unselectivity
  10. unselects
  11. unself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unselective (page history and authors); unselective (Tamil 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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