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unentitled

unentitled

8.7
Not having the right to something
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪnˈtaɪtəld/
translation icon : sin derecho
  • She felt unentitled to the scholarship despite her excellent grades.

Might be, you know, unentitled, coddled little nightmare Lord Fauntleroy when she gets him on his own.

Examples

  • The control of information resources within the community can prevent the transmission of information to unentitled parties and avoid the possible disruptive impact of this transmission on the total Hopi community.

    Academic text (1998)

  • They are filled with students who are purposeful, driven, unentitled, and know how to handle adversity.

    Blog text (16)

  • Might be, you know, unentitled, coddled little nightmare Lord Fauntleroy when she gets him on his own.

    Matthew Hussey

  • He had never lost as she had, and touching her loss, feeling it and feeling unentitled to it, knowing he could not know it, he had seen his love for her grow clinging and contentious.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Without these, judgment rules, and exclusion is seen as an intelligent strategy for sorting good from bad... and through free will, leaves us unentitled to our birthright of the experience of Oneness.

    Blog text (19)

  • After the argument, he realized he was unentitled to any further discussion on the matter.

  • The committee decided to uninvite several unentitled guests from the exclusive event.

Synonyms

disenfranchised
vsunentitled
7.8

People who lack the right to vote and have little power in society

covers any lack of right or claim beyond citizenship matters

Antonyms

entitled
1 4.4

Has the right by law or rules to receive something

Surface Forms

unentitled positive

Morphology

unentitled = entitled (transparent) = un + entitle + ed

The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the adjective 'entitled', making the meaning straightforward.

Etymology

Unentitled breaks into un- meaning 'not' and entitle meaning 'to give a right', and entitle is from the same root as title; so someone who is unentitled does not have the right or claim to something.