unentitled

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adjective

Not entitled; ineligible.

Similar
unqualifiedineligible
OriginEnglish entitled ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunentitled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot entitled; ineligible.
  2. not comparableTo which someone is not entitled.

    “Nay, Pierre, that is my office; thou art first entitled to my tale, then, if it suit thee, thou shalt make me the unentitled gift of thine. […]”

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving no right or entitlement

Similar
unqualifiedineligible
Also see
ineligibleunqualified

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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. Englishentitled
  9. Englishunentitled

From un- + entitled.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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