unclaimed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ claimed.

Adjective

unclaimed (not comparable)

1. Not claimed.

   Any unclaimed items of luggage may be destroyed.

   • 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     On his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi.

   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

Translations

not claimed

• Finnish: noutamaton
• Greek: αδιεκδίκητος (el) (adiekdíkitos)
• Russian: невостре́бованный (ru) (nevostrébovannyj)
• Spanish: mostrenco (es)

Anagrams

• calumnied, undecimal, unmedical