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🎨 Not requested 🧑‍✈️ Not officially appointed 🏗️ Not in service
uncommissioned

uncommissioned

7.0
Not officially given a job or the right to act
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.kəˈmɪʃ.ənd/
  • Formal
translation icon : no comisionado
  • As an uncommissioned volunteer, she helped organize the event without any official title.

Examples

  • He served as an uncommissioned officer during the crisis, taking charge without formal authority.

  • He served as an uncommissioned officer during the crisis, taking charge without formal authority.

  • The uncommissioned artwork was never displayed in the official gallery.

  • The artist created an uncommissioned mural on the wall.

  • Her uncommissioned work gained popularity online.

  • As an uncommissioned volunteer, she helped organize the event without any official title.

  • The uncommissioned artwork was never displayed in the official gallery.

Synonyms

uninvested
vsuncommissioned
  • Formal
7.2

Having no official power or duties in a job

is about lacking official assignment to a role rather than missing formal powers
unappointed
vsuncommissioned
5.8

Not officially given to a person for a job or role

is without formal legal authorization or the specific powers for a task

Antonyms

commissioned
  • Formal
5.4

A person officially given power to do a specific job

How Commissioned

commissioned
  • Formal
5.4
acting
3 3.7
uncommissioned
  • Formal
7.0

Surface Forms

uncommissioned positive

Morphology

uncommissioned = commissioned (transparent) = un + commission + ed

The sense is the straightforward negative of 'commissioned' (not officially appointed or authorized), so the composition is clear.

Etymology

Uncommissioned comes from un- 'not' and commission 'an official appointment or authority', the same root you see in commissioner. So an uncommissioned person is someone acting or helping 'without formal authority' or a title.