unreserved
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not booked in advance: with no reservation.
adj
Without reserve: unrestrained, unconstrained.
verb
simple past and past participle of unreserve.
Example Sentences
- "an unreserved forest"
- "an unreserved table"
- "For the steam services, passengers with reserved seats are assembled behind the appropriate notice boards in the centre cab road, which is barred to motor traffic on summer Saturdays. Unreserved passengers line up behind other boards, which merely display destinations and not departure times."
- "It cannot be right that someone who joins a train at 0800, having paid perhaps £200 for a single at the ticket office and who sits in an unreserved seat, can be removed from that seat at 1200 by someone who joins en route with a cheap Advance fare that he didn't even buy until 1100, and yet which came with a compulsory reservation. That turns our first passenger's seat from unreserved to reserved midway through the journey and is, to me, commercially immoral."
- "an unreserved demeanor"
Etymology
From un- + reserved.