"unofficial" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ʌn.əˈfɪʃ.əl/ Forms: more unofficial [comparative], most unofficial [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪʃəl Etymology: un- + official Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|official}} un- + official Head templates: {{en-adj}} unofficial (comparative more unofficial, superlative most unofficial)
  1. Not officially established.
    Sense id: en-unofficial-en-adj-Otduueg6
  2. Not officially established.
    Implicitly true but withheld and/or contradicted by authority.
    Translations (implicitly true but unauthorized): непотвърден (nepotvǎrden) (Bulgarian), 裏向きの (uramuki no) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-unofficial-en-adj-q7rXwCB3 Disambiguation of 'implicitly true but unauthorized': 10 68 8 14
  3. Not acting with official authority.
    Sense id: en-unofficial-en-adj-h68XdXE-
  4. (pharmacology) Not listed in a national pharmacopeia etc. Categories (topical): Pharmacology
    Sense id: en-unofficial-en-adj-qvC2jnZ0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 23 22 32 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 25 25 20 31 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: inofficial [rare] Derived forms: unofficial farthing, unofficiality, unofficially, unofficialness Translations (not official): jozyrtar (Albanian), неафіцы́йны (njeaficýjny) (Belarusian), неофициален (neoficialen) (Bulgarian), 非官方 (fēiguānfāng) (Chinese Mandarin), neoficiální (Czech), uofficiel (Danish), officieus (Dutch), neoficiala (Esperanto), epävirallinen (Finnish), officieux (French), inoffiziell (German), ανεπίσημος (anepísimos) (Greek), nem hivatalos (Hungarian), ufficioso [masculine] (Italian), 非公認 (hikōnin) (Japanese), 非公式 (hikōshiki) (Japanese), 비공식적 (bigongsikjeok) (Korean), inofficialis (Latin), manakore (Maori), nieoficjalny [masculine] (Polish), extraoficial (Portuguese), neoficial [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), неофициа́льный (neoficiálʹnyj) (Russian), extraoficial (Spanish), oficioso (Spanish), inofficiell (Swedish), gayriresmi (Turkish), неофіці́йний (neoficíjnyj) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'not official': 17 17 35 30

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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.