unwarranted
/ənwˈɔɹəntɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
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 warranted English unwarranted From un- + warranted.
Inflected Forms
more unwarranted (comparative)
most unwarranted (superlative)