Meanings
comparative more unexcused · superlative most unexcused
- That has not been excused.
Mothers descended en masse on the school, beseeching Mr. Elly to release their boys from peril. “I told them that their boys were free to leave, but that an unexcused absence would be marked against them. They called me the cruelest-hearted man they had ever known.”
1952 April 13, William McDonald, “Today ‘Barnes Boys’ Are Legion—Positivism Of Mister Elly Helped Educator Build One Of South’s Finest Boys’ Schools”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, 124th year, number 15, Montgomery, Ala., page ten—C, column 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot excused
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-
- Englishexcused
- Englishunexcused
Cite this entry
unexcused. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexcused
“unexcused.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexcused. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unexcused,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexcused.
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