Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not held back for a particular person.
  • adjective Given without reservation; unqualified.
  • adjective Exhibiting no reserve.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not reserved; not restricted; not limited; not withheld in part; without reservation; full; entire: as, unreserved obedience to God's commands.
  • Open; frank; concealing or withholding nothing; free: as, an unreserved disclosure of facts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not reserved.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not reserved
  • adjective not cautious or reticent

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Examples

  • Fewer than 50 copies of the Limited Edition remain unreserved at this point.

    Subterranean Press » 2006 » May 2006

  • Only a handful of copies remain unreserved, so if you’d like a rare piece of Bradbury memorabilia, get your order in soon.

    Subterranean Press » 2008 » February 2008

  • Only six copies of the Lettered Edition remain unreserved.

    Subterranean Press » 2007 » September 2007

  • A very few copies of the lettered edition remain unreserved.

    Subterranean Press » 2006 » July 2006

  • The enlargement of his heart towards them (2Co 7: 3) produced his openness of mouth, that is, his unreserved expression of his inmost feelings.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • As I have blogged previously, will-writing is a so-called unreserved activity, meaning that anyone can do it whether or not they have a legal qualification, professional indemnity insurance and so on - and in fact doing it yourself is a popular option too, with Lawpack, the leading provider of DIY wills via WH Smith, Tesco and the like, selling around 200,000 packs a year.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Although about a quarter of that total was reserved for purposes such as debt payments, the report said, "the remainder was classified as unreserved, undesignated fund balance and was available for spending, subject to statutory and constitutional spending constraints."

    statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories 2010

  • When I was in college I did it regularly, and in those days the trains were "unreserved" so there would be hundreds of people standing all the way from Providence to New York and beyond.

    October 14th, 2008 ceciliatan 2008

  • Labour have encouraged this vile intrusive emotionalizing life-as-soap-opera mawkishness, with its attendant tears and "unreserved" apologies, so they really should not be surprised when the beast eventually turns on them.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • He was mobbed when he made appearances here in Canada, a fact which never failed to flabbergast him, but in this detached society we simply never get to see that kind of unreserved love; when we do, how can we help but be drawn to it?

    a Steve Irwin Tribute « raincoaster 2006

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