unasked-for
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not asked for.
Example Sentences
- "A few months ago, the Belkin_G-Plus_MIMO network changed its name and gained a padlock icon in my computer’s list of available connections. Then — crickets. The era of unintentional, unasked-for or simply unacknowledged Internet sharing, it seemed, had come to an end."
- "We smiled through our tears as our server placed an unasked-for glass of Thai iced tea in front of Brandt."
- "It’s quite true that the greatest friend is the one who will provide unasked-for reassurance the morning after the night before, as the novelist Beryl Bainbridge once described of her pal Bernice Rubens: […]"
Etymology
From un- + asked for.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un