unsolicited
adj/ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/
Etymology
From un- + solicited.
Definitions
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
- antonymsolicited
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