unsolicited

adj
/ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/

Etymology

From un- + solicited.

Definitions

  1. Not requested

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unsolicited. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA