Definitions for unearned

unearned un·earned

Spelling: [uhn-urnd]
IPA: /ʌnˈɜrnd/

Unearned is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in unearned (adeennru).

Definitions for unearned

adjective

  1. not received in exchange for labor or services; not gained by lawful work or employment.
  2. not earned; unmerited; undeserved:
  3. not yet earned:

Origin of unearned

Middle English word dating back to 1150-1200; See origin at un-1, earn1, -

Examples for unearned

Like Henry George we both understand the value of unearned increment.

“There is an unearned air of arrogance about the man that is incredibly frustrating to witness,” Ashton says of Baez.

And far away, Earth could rest in unearned safety for a while.

As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.

He was deprived by it of nothing except, perhaps, an "unearned increment."

But, you may rightly say, this will not eliminate the unearned incomes.

And often times this very hard work is done under the most difficult of circumstances—with unearned stress of the worst kind.

God's gift is to be received as purely His gift, undeserved, unearned by us.

To those earning income; not to those sitting on unearned wealth.

Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.

Word Value for unearned
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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