unsolicited

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English solicited

English unsolicited

From un- + solicited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: un‧so‧li‧cit‧ed

Adjective

unsolicited (comparative more unsolicited, superlative most unsolicited)

1. Not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.

   People have become very frustrated with unsolicited sales calls.

   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8837, archived from the original on 8 March 2023, page 74:

     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.

   • 2021 April 28, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Trading Stock Tips on TikTok, Newbies Are Deeply Invested in Learning”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 August 2021:

     Mr. Hankwitz’s endorsement of Betterment was unsolicited, but the power of so-called finfluencers like him has not gone unnoticed.

Antonyms

• solicited

Translations

not requested, welcome or invited

• Bulgarian: непоискан (bg) (nepoiskan)
• Czech: nevyžádaný, nežádaný
• Danish: uopfordret
• Finnish: pyytämätön
• French: volontaire (fr), spontané (fr)
• Georgian: მოულოდნელი (moulodneli)
• German: unaufgefordert (de), unerbeten, unverlangt (de)
• Greek: απαρακάλεστος (el) (aparakálestos)
• Hungarian: kéretlen (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: nelūgts, neprasīts, nevēlams
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uoppfordret, uønsket (no)

• Russian: непрошеный (ru) (neprošenyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: netražen, neželjen (sh)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: oönskad (sv), oombedd (sv)
• Turkish: istenmemiş (tr), istenmeyen (tr)