unverified

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adjective

Not yet confirmed; not verified.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunverified (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot yet confirmed; not verified.

    The most salacious claims in the dossier are still unverified.

    2019 March 16, Katelyn Polantz, “Steele says he used unverified information to support details about web company in dossier”, in CNN
    1 more example

    Republicans, though, have seized on the unverified material as part of their broader investigation into the Bidens.

    2023 July 20, Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen and Jeremy Herb, “Grassley releases internal FBI document about unverified Biden bribery allegations”, in CNN

    Synonyms: unconfirmed, untested

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot yet confirmed; not verified.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivelacking proof or substantiation

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. Englishverified
  9. Englishunverified

From un- + verified.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian непотвърден, непроверен
  • непотвърден (nepotvărden)not verified
  • непроверен (neproveren)not verified
French invérifié
  • invérifiénot verified
Greek αδιασταύρωτος
  • αδιασταύρωτος (adiastávrotos)not verified
Japanese 未検証の
  • 未検証の (mi-kenshō-no)not verified
Norwegian Bokmål ubekrefta, ubekreftet
  • ubekreftanot verified
  • ubekreftetnot verified
Russian непроверенный
  • непроверенный (neproverennyj)not verified
Swedish obekräftad, overifierad
  • obekräftadnot verified
  • overifieradnot verified
Cite this entry
APA

unverified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unverified

MLA

“unverified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unverified. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unverified,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unverified.

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