unentitled

/'ʌnin'taitld/

Thân thiện

A student feels unentitled to the award his classmate earned.

Definition

Adjective: - Having no right or entitlement: Describes a person or entity that lacks a legitimate claim, privilege, or legal right to something. It implies an absence of justification or authority.

Usage

The adjective "unentitled" is used to describe a state of not having a right to a specific benefit, position, treatment, or piece of property. It is often used in formal, legal, or critical contexts to highlight an unjustified claim or assumption of privilege. - It typically follows a linking verb like "be" or "feel." - It can be followed by the preposition "to" when specifying what the right pertains to (e.g., "unentitled to the inheritance").

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "to be unentitled to something": To lack any rightful claim to a specific thing.
  • The former employee was found unentitled to the company's trade secrets.

Variants and Related Words

• Entitlement (n): The fact of having a right to something.
  • There is a debate about welfare entitlements.
• Entitled (adj): Having a right to something; (often used pejoratively) believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
  • Only entitled members may enter. / He has a very entitled attitude.

Synonyms

• Ineligible: Not having the right qualifications or meeting the necessary conditions.
• Unauthorized: Not having official permission or approval.
• Unqualified: Not officially recognized as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity; lacking the necessary skills.

Antonyms

• Entitled: Having a right or claim to something.
• Eligible: Having the right to do or obtain something; satisfying the appropriate conditions.
• Authorized: Having official permission or approval.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having no right or entitlement
   • a distinction to which he was unentitled

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unqualified