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undefeated

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,686 of 15,258leans written

Undefeated means never having lost. An undefeated season, retire undefeated, still undefeated.

It is the plainest praise in sport and needs no adjective beside it. Retiring undefeated is rare enough to be famous when it happens, since almost everybody stays one fight or one season too long.

Definitions of undefeated

  1. 1adjectiveundefeatedNever having lost.B2

    “The team stayed undefeated all season and won the league easily.”

undefeated is a record.

Where it comes from

From un- + defeated.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

undefeated in the wild

  • The team went undefeated, winning all five of its regular season games.

    1904 Auburn Tigers football team

  • Nevertheless, Colgate did not receive an expected invitation to the Rose Bowl, and as such, the team was called "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited".

    1932 Colgate Red Raiders football team

  • The 1943 squad was the only undefeated team playing a full schedule in major college football, but finished fifth in the AP Poll.

    1943 Purdue Boilermakers football team

  • The season is, as of 2022, the last season the Jayhawks finished undefeated without any ties.

    1908 Kansas Jayhawks football team

  • Before the Super Bowl era, the last undefeated team won fourteen Championship games, four of which were in the AFL.

    List of last undefeated NFL teams by season

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.