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uninvited

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,211 of 15,258leans spoken

Uninvited means turning up without having been asked. An uninvited guest, arrive uninvited, uninvited advice.

It reaches beyond guests: uninvited advice and uninvited attention are both things nobody asked for, and the word is how English says so politely. The adverb use, walking in uninvited, is as common as the adjective.

Definitions of uninvited

  1. 1adjectiveuninvitedTurning up without having been asked.B2

    “Two uninvited guests turned up at the wedding and ate half the cake.”

uninvited is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + invited.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

uninvited in the wild

  • 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

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.