Meanings
- not comparableNot claimed.
Any unclaimed items of luggage may be destroyed.
2 more examples
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse TrickOn his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi.
2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot claimed or called for by an owner or assignee
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishclaimed
- Englishunclaimed
Translations
Finnish noutamaton
- noutamatonnot claimed
Greek αδιεκδίκητος
- αδιεκδίκητος (adiekdíkitos)not claimed
Russian невостре́бованный
- невостре́бованный (nevostrébovannyj)not claimed
Spanish mostrenco
- mostrenconot claimed
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Cite this entry
unclaimed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unclaimed
“unclaimed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unclaimed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unclaimed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unclaimed.
Source: unclaimed on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.