Meanings
- not comparableNot selective; open and inclusive.
The 1851 Exhibition was international and unselective; the 1951 exhibitions, however, will be entirely British.
1951 May, “Railway and the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1951”, in Railway Magazine, page 3001 more example
“I’m preaching the virtues of the unselective small colleges, the ones that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” Mr. Pope said in an interview at his apartment in a retirement community here in the suburbs of northern Virginia.
2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot selective or discriminating
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-
- Englishselective
- Englishunselective
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unselective
Cite this entry
unselective. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unselective
“unselective.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unselective. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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