uncredited

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adjective

Unacknowledged.

“Several uncredited musicians worked on the film score.”

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveuncredited (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUnacknowledged.

    “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”

    2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, anonymous quotee, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost
  2. not comparableNot believed.

    I find, with him to whom the tale is told, belief only makes the difference betwixt truth and lies; for a lie believed is true, and truth uncredited a lie.

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
  3. not comparablemediaNot listed in the credits.

    Several uncredited musicians worked on the film score.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishcredited
  9. Englishuncredited

From un- + credited.

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APA

uncredited. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredited

MLA

“uncredited.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredited. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncredited,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncredited.

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