Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not asked.
- adjective Not invited.
- adjective Not requested.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not asked; unsolicited.
- Not sought by entreaty or care.
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- adjective Not
asked about.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not asked for
Etymologies
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Examples
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I guess the question left unasked is whether the administration should be doing anything to prevent foreclosures, leaving aside the macroeconomic questions (also, the administration has been strongarming industry to renegotiate loan terms as part of the hope alliance, which i think is an awful idea, Barack Obama to his credit hasn't said a peep about preventing foreclosures).
Archive 2008-03-01 xtra 2008
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I guess the question left unasked is whether the administration should be doing anything to prevent foreclosures, leaving aside the macroeconomic questions (also, the administration has been strongarming industry to renegotiate loan terms as part of the hope alliance, which i think is an awful idea, Barack Obama to his credit hasn't said a peep about preventing foreclosures).
Foreclosures xtra 2008
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BTW, unasked is “why do they still use characters?”
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Michael and Gabriel; and to Zacharias the angel told his name unasked
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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And make one for herself and join in the actual performance, unasked.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Tiger Mothers, Mama Grizzlies and the Mommy Wars -- Let's Tame the Beasts! Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011
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The White House reporter attempted his usual trick of asking one question to get an implicit answer to an unasked one.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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An alert reader is correct in noting my fascination with these, but some questions are best left unasked.
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“When I was staging in France,” says Dan Barber, who spent half a year working at Michel Rostang, “it would never have occurred to me to approach the chef unasked.”
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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The frustrating aspect of monitoring this story is not so much the unanswered questions as it it the unasked questions.
Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009
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And make one for herself and join in the actual performance, unasked.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Tiger Mothers, Mama Grizzlies and the Mommy Wars -- Let's Tame the Beasts! Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011
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