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UNASKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unasked mean? 

UNASKED (adjective)
  The adjective UNASKED has 1 sense:

1. uninvitedplay

  Familiarity information: UNASKED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNASKED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Uninvited

Context example:

A swift picture of the sort of women he would have in his bed sprang unasked into her mind.

Similar:

unrequested (not requested)


 Context examples 


Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Had he been a handsome, heroic- looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Emma and Harriet professed very high expectations of pleasure from it; and Mr. Weston, unasked, promised to get Frank over to join them, if possible; a proof of approbation and gratitude which could have been dispensed with.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Saturday night before I left Hunsford—between our pools at quadrille, while Mrs. Jenkinson was arranging Miss de Bourgh's footstool, that she said, 'Mr. Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake; and for your own, let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way. This is my advice. Find such a woman as soon as you can, bring her to Hunsford, and I will visit her.'

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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