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What is "unconfirmed"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unconfirmed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unconfirmed report (=not yet supported by official information)
▪ There are unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 people have been killed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
report
▪ We have an unconfirmed report of shots fired in the area of Brandenburg Gate.
▪ Horrors include the bombing of civilians and unconfirmed reports that napalm has been used.
▪ One unconfirmed report said Hamilton had intended to take the children hostage but that his plan went awry.
▪ Several commercial tests are available but there are few and unconfirmed reports of their efficacy.
▪ By early afternoon, there's an unconfirmed report that the river has crested at 17.5 feet.
▪ The whereabouts of Pastor Tokes remained unclear, amid unconfirmed reports that he had been murdered.
▪ Then criticisms of him began to be heard and there were unconfirmed reports of assassination attempts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to unconfirmed reports the government had offered talks with Bhutto in return for an agreement to end the agitation.
▪ By early afternoon, there's an unconfirmed report that the river has crested at 17.5 feet.
▪ Horrors include the bombing of civilians and unconfirmed reports that napalm has been used.
▪ It was hard to keep track of the unconfirmed star sightings.
▪ One unconfirmed report said Hamilton had intended to take the children hostage but that his plan went awry.
▪ There is an unconfirmed suggestion that Diaper was ordained priest in 1715.
▪ We have an unconfirmed report of shots fired in the area of Brandenburg Gate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unconfirmed

1560s, "not having received the rite of confirmation," from un- (1) "not" + confirmed. Meaning "not supported by further evidence" is attested from 1670s.

Wiktionary
unconfirmed

a. 1 Not finally established, settled or confirmed. 2 (context Christianity English) Not having undergone the ritual of confirmation.

WordNet
unconfirmed

adj. not finally established or settled; "an unconfirmed letter of credit"; "unconfirmed rumors" [ant: confirmed]

Usage examples of "unconfirmed".

A close call, this was the first friendly fire episode of the war and an example of the miscues created by unconfirmed intelligence.

There are also as yet unconfirmed reports of brain damage that results only in the inability to understand the passive voice or prepositional phrases or possessive constructions.

Unconfirmed reports from the Congolese capital Kinshasa speak of a spontaneous outbreak of fighting between rival militias in the eastern region of the country.

First of all, there is at least one unconfirmed CIA report that indicates that Saddam tried to use BW against coalition forces--an air strike involving three MiG-21s as decoys and an Su-22 fitted with a spray tank to spray coalition forces with a biological agent.

Reports of English dogcapture positions near Elbe bridgehead in Lauenburg and of American dogcapture in Fichtel Mountains unconfirmed.

According to unconfirmed reports he has been able to form two small bridgeheads there over the Seine.

For years many stories and quite a few unconfirmed rumors about the Strawberry Mesa Body Shop and Pipe Queen tycoon, Ruby Archuleta, had circulated between Milagro and Dona Luz.

The theory that this connection is based on the transference of the collective will of a people to certain historical personages is an hypothesis unconfirmed by the experience of history.

Unconfirmed sources told her that the arrests were part of an ever-widening investigation in the Lanigan matter, and to prove this she flashed up uncontroverted footage of Patrick entering the Biloxi courthouse for his appearance.