unwarranted
unwarranted adjective: not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
Adjective
unwarranted (comparative more unwarranted, superlative most unwarranted)
- Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
- Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.
- The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62
- The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312
unwarranted meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
unwarranted in Tamil
- சட்டப்படி உரிமை பெறாத, வாத ஆதாரமற்ற
unwarranted in Malayalam
- unjustifiable, unjustified, indefensible
- നീതീകരണമില്ലാത്ത, ന്യായീകരണമില്ലാത്ത, നീതീകരിക്കപ്പെടാത്ത, നീതീകരിക്കാനാവാത്ത, അപ്രതിരോധ്യം, വാദിച്ചുനിൽക്കാനാവാത്ത
- unsanctioned, unauthorized, unapproved
- അധികാരപ്പെടുത്താത്ത, അനധികൃതമായ, ഔദ്യോഗികാംഗീകാരമില്ലാത്ത, അനുമതിയില്ലാത്ത, അംഗീകാരം നൽകപ്പെടാത്ത, അനുമതിപത്രമില്ലാത്ത
unwarranted in Kannada
- ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಬೇಕಿಲ್ಲದ, ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಸಮರ್ಥನೀಯವಲ್ಲದ, ನಿರಾಧಾರ, ಅನವಶ್ಯಕ
Examples of unwarranted in a sentence
- Epiplaphobia as the name indicates is the extreme, irrational and often unwarranted fear of furniture.
- She’d had people spit venom at her, but this bothered her more because it was so unwarranted.
- Interestingly, Arun himself has confessed that accusing him of being religist is not unwarranted.
Forms of unwarranted
| comparative | more unwarranted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unwarranted |
Origin of unwarranted
From un- + warranted.
Words formed from unwarranted
Questions about unwarranted
- What does unwarranted mean?
- Unwarranted means not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
- What is unwarranted in Tamil?
- Unwarranted in Tamil is சட்டப்படி உரிமை பெறாத, வாத ஆதாரமற்ற. See Unwarranted meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unwarranted?
- Unwarranted is an adjective.
Words near unwarranted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unwarranted (page history and authors); unwarranted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unwarranted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unwarranted (Kannada 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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