unreserve

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noun

A lack or absence of reserve; frankness; uninhibitedness.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

noununreserve (countable and uncountable, plural unreserves)

plural unreserves

  1. uncountableA lack or absence of reserve; frankness; uninhibitedness.First known use 18th c.

    Kitty, tho' perhaps not authorized to address him with so much familiarity on so short an acquaintance, could not forbear indulging the natural Unreserve and Vivacity of her own Disposition, in speaking to him, as he spoke to her.

    c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia
  2. IndiacountableA forest that is not set aside as a reserve.
verbunreserve (third-person singular simple present unreserves, present participle unreserving, simple past and past participle unreserved)

present singular third person unreserves · participle present unreserving · participle past unreserved · past unreserved

  1. transitivecomputingTo undo or cancel a reservation.

Origin

From un- + reserve.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

unreserve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreserve

MLA

“unreserve.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreserve. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreserve,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreserve.

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