UNINVITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninvited mean? 

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

1. (of a thought or act) unwelcome or involuntary

2. (of a person) not having been invited

  Familiarity information: UNINVITED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINVITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a thought or act) unwelcome or involuntary

Context example:

uninvited advances

Similar:

unwelcome (not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a person) not having been invited

Context example:

uninvited guests

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

 Context examples 

Over the years, she started noticing that uninvited guests had apparently been serving themselves at the bamboo buffet—and they were eating like horses…literally.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

A shadow passed over the boy's face as he watched them, feeling that he ought to go away because uninvited; yet lingering because home seemed very lonely and this quiet party in the woods most attractive to his restless spirit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I soon rose, quietly took off my bonnet and gloves, uninvited, and said I would just step out to Bessie—who was, I dared say, in the kitchen—and ask her to ascertain whether Mrs. Reed was disposed to receive me or not to- night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny could not wonder that Edmund was at the Parsonage every morning; she would gladly have been there too, might she have gone in uninvited and unnoticed, to hear the harp; neither could she wonder that, when the evening stroll was over, and the two families parted again, he should think it right to attend Mrs. Grant and her sister to their home, while Mr. Crawford was devoted to the ladies of the Park; but she thought it a very bad exchange; and if Edmund were not there to mix the wine and water for her, would rather go without it than not.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)