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unwarranted

adj

Etymology

From un- + warranted.

Definitions

  1. Not warranted

    Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.

  2. Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.

    • The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
    • 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.
    • This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unwarranted. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unwarranted. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at unwarranted

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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