UNWELCOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwelcome mean? 

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

1. not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure

2. not welcome

  Familiarity information: UNWELCOME used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWELCOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure

Context example:

unwelcome visitors

Similar:

uninvited ((of a thought or act) unwelcome or involuntary)

Also:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

Antonym:

welcome (giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not welcome

Synonyms:

unwelcome; unwished; unwished-for

Context example:

unwelcome publicity

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

 Context examples 

That very evening brought your most unwelcome uncle.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The fear of being still unwelcome, determined her, though assured of their being at home, to wait in the passage, and send up her name.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But unwelcome as such a task must be, it was necessary to be done, and Elinor therefore hastened to perform it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“You certainly do,” she replied with a smile; “but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am about to write your check, however unwelcome the information which you have gained may be to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because I had every reason to believe, Sir Charles, that that would be most unwelcome to Lord Avon.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am sorry,” said Henry, closing the book he had just opened; “if I had suspected the letter of containing anything unwelcome, I should have given it with very different feelings.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient believe that unwelcome guests are living in his/her house?

(NPI - Unwelcome Guests are Living in His/Her House, NCI Thesaurus)

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was some sympathetic laughter on his entrance among the front benches of well-dressed spectators, as though the demonstration of the students in this instance was not unwelcome to them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)