UNSOLICITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsolicited mean? 

• UNSOLICITED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSOLICITED has 1 sense:

1. not requested or sought

  Familiarity information: UNSOLICITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSOLICITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not requested or sought

Synonyms:

unasked-for; unsolicited

Context example:

unsolicited junk mail

Similar:

unrequested (not requested)

 Context examples 

This is not our custom, and of course yours was unsolicited.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Or is her heart constant to him only when unsolicited by anyone else?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On rereading your letter it seems to us that you are laboring under the misapprehension that we pay for unsolicited manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was at this time that he wrote letters of inquiry to the several great monthly and quarterly reviews, and learned in reply that they rarely considered unsolicited articles, and that most of their contents were written upon order by well-known specialists who were authorities in their various fields.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)