Meanings
comparative more unpopular · superlative most unpopular
- Lacking popularity.
an unpopular opinion
- Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
2025 July 13, Aaron Blake, “Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveregarded with disfavor or lacking general approval
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-
- Proto-Italic*poplos
- Old Latinpopulus
- Latinpopulus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinpopulāri
- Old Frenchpopulaire
- Latinpopulāris
- Middle Englishpopuler
- Englishpopular
- Englishunpopular
Translations
Catalan impopular
- impopularlacking popularity
Chinese Mandarin 不得人心
- 不得人心 (bùdérénxīn)lacking popularity
Czech neoblíbený, nepopulární
- neoblíbenýlacking popularity
- nepopulárnílacking popularity
Danish upopulær
- upopulærlacking popularity
Dutch impopulair
- impopulairlacking popularity
Esperanto malpopulara
- malpopularalacking popularity
Finnish epäsuosittu
- epäsuosittulacking popularity
French impopulaire
- impopulairelacking popularity
German unpopulär, unbeliebt
- unpopulärlacking popularity
- unbeliebtlacking popularity
Greek μη δημοφιλής, αντιδημοτικός
- μη δημοφιλής (mi dimofilís)lacking popularity
- αντιδημοτικός (antidimotikós)lacking popularity
Hebrew לא פופולרי
- לא פופולריlacking popularity
Hungarian népszerűtlen
- népszerűtlenlacking popularity
Italian impopolare, inviso
- impopolarelacking popularity
- invisolacking popularity
- malvistolacking popularity
- antipopolarelacking popularity
- sgraditolacking popularity
- poco popolarelacking popularity
Japanese 不評
- 不評 (fuhyō)lacking popularity
Latin invīsus
- invīsuslacking popularity
Norwegian Bokmål upopulær
- upopulærlacking popularity
Polish niepopularny
- niepopularnylacking popularity
Portuguese impopular
- impopularlacking popularity
Romanian nepopular
- nepopularlacking popularity
Russian непопуля́рный
- непопуля́рный (nepopuljárnyj)lacking popularity
Spanish impopular
- impopularlacking popularity
Swedish impopulär
- impopulärlacking popularity
Urdu غیرمقبول
- غیرمقبولlacking popularity
Yiddish אומבאַליבט
- אומבאַליבט (umbalibt)lacking popularity
Cite this entry
unpopular. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpopular
“unpopular.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpopular. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpopular,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpopular.
Source: unpopular on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.