unsolicited
Syllables: un·so·li·cit·ed/ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/
unsolicited adjective: not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.
Adjective
unsolicited (comparative more unsolicited, superlative most unsolicited)
- Not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.
- People have become very frustrated with unsolicited sales calls.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023, page 74
unsolicited meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
unsolicited in Tamil
- வேண்டப்படாத, கோரப்படாத, விரும்பிக் கேட்கப்படாத
unsolicited in Telugu
- కోరబడనిది
unsolicited in Malayalam
- unsought, uninvited, unasked for
- അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കപ്പെടാത്ത, ക്ഷണിക്കാത്ത, ചോദിക്കാത്ത, ക്ഷണിക്കാതെ വന്ന, ആവശ്യപ്പെടാതെവന്ന, ആവശ്യപ്പെടാത്ത
unsolicited in Kannada
- ಬೇಡಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ
Examples of unsolicited in a sentence
- Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.
- You can take your unsolicited advice and stick it where the sun don't shine.
- Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
Antonyms of unsolicited
Forms of unsolicited
| comparative | more unsolicited |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsolicited |
Origin of unsolicited
From un- + solicited.
Words formed from unsolicited
Questions about unsolicited
- What does unsolicited mean?
- Unsolicited means not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.
- What is unsolicited in Tamil?
- Unsolicited in Tamil is வேண்டப்படாத, கோரப்படாத, விரும்பிக் கேட்கப்படாத. See Unsolicited meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unsolicited?
- Unsolicited is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unsolicited?
- Unsolicited is pronounced /ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/.
Words near unsolicited in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsolicited (page history and authors); unsolicited (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unsolicited (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unsolicited (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unsolicited (Kannada, 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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