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UNWELCOME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not welcome
Example:
unwelcome publicity
Synonyms:
unwelcome; unwished; unwished-for
Classified under:
Similar:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure
Example:
unwelcome visitors
Classified under:
Similar:
uninvited ((of a thought or act) unwelcome or involuntary)
Also:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
Antonym:
welcome (giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted)
Context examples:
She knew, that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr Shepherd, his agent, from his thoughts.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I have a place to repair to, which will be a secure sanctuary from hateful reminiscences, from unwelcome intrusion—even from falsehood and slander.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Such a development of every thing most unwelcome!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Colonel Brandon's delicate, unobtrusive enquiries were never unwelcome to Miss Dashwood.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There was novelty in the scheme, and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Is it unwelcome news?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
James expressed himself on the occasion with becoming gratitude; and the necessity of waiting between two and three years before they could marry, being, however unwelcome, no more than he had expected, was borne by him without discontent.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
