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unthanked

unthanked adjective: not having been thanked. Also the simple past and past participle of unthank.

Adjective

unthanked (not comparable)

  1. Not having been thanked.
    • In the leading article in this week's Publishers' Weekly a poet utters the complaints and defines the encouragements to be found in a materialistic world by its unthanked songsters.1932 April 9, Isidor Schneider, “Hard Luck Of Poets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2026

Also used as

unthanked is also the simple past and past participle of unthank.

Origin of unthanked

From un- + thanked.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about unthanked

What does unthanked mean?
Unthanked means not having been thanked.
What part of speech is unthanked?
Unthanked is an adjective.

Words near unthanked in the dictionary

  1. untextualized
  2. untextured
  3. untexturized
  4. unthank
  5. unthankable
  6. unthanked
  7. unthankful
  8. unthankfully
  9. unthankfulness
  10. unthanking
  11. unthanks

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