UNCLASSIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unclassified mean? 

• UNCLASSIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCLASSIFIED has 2 senses:

1. not subject to a security classification

2. not arranged in any specific grouping

  Familiarity information: UNCLASSIFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCLASSIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject to a security classification

Similar:

declassified (having had security classification removed)

nonsensitive; unrestricted (never having had security classification)

Antonym:

classified (official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not arranged in any specific grouping

Similar:

uncategorised; uncategorized; unsorted (not categorized or sorted)

Antonym:

classified (arranged into classes)

 Context examples 

Any oncogene (cancer-causing gene) that is derived from a proto-oncogene (normal gene) which has an unknown or unclassified cellular function.

(Oncogenes, Other, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt of Dyclonine, an unclassified compound with local anesthetic effect.

(Dyclonine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

An unclassified compound with local anesthetic effect.

(Dyclonine, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic used to qualify the adverse event as unclassified in term of its relation to the medical intervention.

(Conditionally Related to Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

The cub knew only that the sniff was strange, a something unclassified, therefore unknown and terrible—for the unknown was one of the chief elements that went into the making of fear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"An enormous blood-tick, as yet, I believe, unclassified."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)