uncommercial

Examples

• All

• This is Jeff Dugan dug in for another week of music that's gonna keep you high on the uncommercial sound of Q-S-K-Y.

  FM (1978)

• And a French bistro that departs from the typical hackneyed menu and serves all the wonderful but uncommercial dishes you used to be able to find in the French countryside: lamb's.

  Blog text (20)

• Even when art societies held shows in dealers' galleries, as was frequently the case by the late 1880s, they retained for Cardon the air of an uncommercial affair because they offered works not made to compete noisily for the attention of the crowd at the Salon but to speak softly in the refined sensory register of an elite or personal space.

  Academic text (1991)

• The artist's latest exhibition features entirely uncommercial pieces that challenge the norms of the art market.

• This book is deeply uncommercial, prioritizing literary expression over mainstream appeal.

Synonyms

U

unprofitable

vsuncommercial

11 4.9

Not making money for a person or business

is about being unlikely to succeed in business rather than only losing money

N

noncommercial

vsuncommercial

3 4.4

Not intended to make money

focuses on lack of business purpose rather than on likelihood of profit or success

Antonyms

C

commercial

56 3.2

Made for sale and often of average rather than high quality

How Commercial

lucrative

105 5.6

profitable

191 3.8

commercial

601 3.7

noncommercial

3 4.4

uncommercial

1 7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology