unsolicited
/ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
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.
Inflected Forms
more unsolicited (comparative)
most unsolicited (superlative)