UNCOMMITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncommitted mean? 

• UNCOMMITTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCOMMITTED has 3 senses:

1. not bound or pledged

2. not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

3. not busy; not otherwise committed

  Familiarity information: UNCOMMITTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOMMITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not bound or pledged

Similar:

fancy-free (having no commitments or responsibilities; carefree)

floating (not definitely committed to a party or policy)

undecided (not yet having made a commitment)

Antonym:

committed (bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

Synonyms:

unattached; uncommitted

Similar:

unengaged; unpledged; unpromised (not promised in marriage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not busy; not otherwise committed

Synonyms:

available; uncommitted

Context example:

he was available and willing to accompany her

Similar:

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)

 Context examples 

A new National Institutes of Health study shows that uncommitted neural stems cells generally survive LACV infection, while LACV often kills neurons.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)