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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unasked
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A swift picture of the sort of women he would have in his bed sprang unasked into her mind.
▪ Cat, unasked, produced a cheese sandwich and a cup of frothing coffee.
▪ However much he wanted the answer to his unasked question, he was going to have to wait for it.
▪ Let me answer, at least this one unasked question.
▪ She told him about the Elder, and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head.
▪ The space between them was filling up with unasked and unanswered questions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unasked

mid-13c., "uninvited," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of ask (v.). Old English had ungeaxod.

Wiktionary
unasked

a. Not asked about.

WordNet
unasked
  1. adj. not asked for; "unasked advice"

  2. without being invited; "an unwanted intrusion"; "uninvited guests" [syn: uninvited, unwanted]

  3. not invited or requested; "unbidden guests"; "comments unbid and unwelcome" [syn: unbid, unbidden]

Usage examples of "unasked".

Unasked and unchid they invaded the cottage and crowded round the door.

Nor would the further honour have remained for even twenty-four hours ungranted, because unasked, but for the belief prevailing among Mr.

They acted as if they did not remember these ill-biddens, did not recognize what they saw, but it was in their eyes and the tightening of their shoulders as they looked upon the evictees who now returned unasked.

The balcony was only just big enough for them to sit outside with their coffee, but there was the view of the sun-silvered Rhone beneath the clifftop edifice and it would have been where Claudine wanted to sit if her mother hadn't led the way, unasked.

The matter between us and the Sea-Purple is bad enough, without nightmare creatures and unasked visitors from the land above joining in our speaking!

Unasked, the bitter memory returned that one of them, Diken, was dying.

It touched Duncan to see her heaving her toys back into the toy chest every evening, unasked.

Indeed more had come, dark faces frowning with anger, unasking and unasked.

Stromboli said instantly, and went on to answer the unasked portion of her question.