Unpopular

Definition: Unpopular

Unpopular

Adjective

1. Regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval; "unpopular ideas"; "an unpopular war".

Date "unpopular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Synonym: Unpopular

Synonym: Odious. (additional references)

Antonym: popular (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unpopular

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dislike	Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful).
Pain	Adjective: causing pain, hurting; Verb: hurtful; (bad); painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unpopular

English words defined with "unpopular": Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ♦ freedom of thought ♦ Marie Antoinette ♦ Turgot. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unpopular": BISMARCK ♦ Empress ♦ FAILURE ♦ LOUIS IX ♦ MELODEON, Mouse Tower ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Plowden ♦ SON ♦ TIME ♦ Ulcer ♦ x86 processor socket. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unpopular

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	No it makes you lonely and unpopular. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini) Americans in Mexico are delivering horses to a very unpopular governmentWhy should we expect trouble? (The Undefeated; writing credit: James Lee Barrett; Stanley Hough) You'll be the most unpopular robot fighter since Sargeant Feces Processor! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) I have no friends, and I am totally unpopular. (Dexter's Laboratory; writing credit: Michael Merton) You're going to be very unpopular around here, Henry, if you don't deliver soon. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)
Movie/TV Titles	Unpopular Mechanic (1936)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unpopular

Domain	Title
Books	Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular (reference) How to Deliver Unpopular Messages (reference) The Unpopular Ones. (reference) Unpopular Animals (reference) Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Unpopular

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Photo Album: Unpopular

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Two good reasons why our air forces will be unpopular with the Axis. These corporals operating side machine guns in a mighty YB-17 bomber have developed into fast, accurate gunners. Credit: Library of Congress.		Fort Benning machine gunners. He'll soon be an unpopular figure in Berlin and Tokyo circles. An American machine gunner finishing an intensive training course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Unpopular

Author	Quotation
George William Curtis	My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
Matthew Arnold	Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unpopular

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Old Russian perfume brands, like Krasnaya Moskva, are always associated with Soviet times and the unpopular communist regime. (references)
		The roadside equipment currently in use for traffic speed enforcement and vehicle identification includes the highly unpopular GATSO system cameras (from the Dutch inventor, Maus Gatsonides). (references)
Economic History	Guatemala	He took the politically unpopular step of recognizing the sovereignty of Belize. (references)
	Nepal	Strikes are unpopular, but are widely viewed as the only available means of political or labor protest. (references)
	Romania	The Communist Party was outlawed, and Ceausescu's most unpopular measures, such as bans on abortion and contraception, were repealed. (references)
Human Rights	Kazakhstan	Some lawyers are reluctant to defend clients unpopular with the Government. (references)
	Tanzania	Senior police or government officials no longer pressure or reassign judges who make unpopular rulings. (references)
Minorities	Bangladesh	Mahuri's family stated that he was unpopular with the Jammat-I-Islami party as he refused it and other political parties access to the college's campus. (references)
Political Economy	Bulgaria	Later that month President Stoyanov dissolved the National Assembly and appointed a UDF-led caretaker government to replace the unpopular socialist government. (references)
	Panama	She has also stated that her administration will respect the politically unpopular privatizations of several parastatal enterprises carried out by the Perez Balladares administration. (references)
Political Rights	China	However, many observers caution that the village election system is not necessarily a precursor for democracy at higher levels of Government, and village elections--as currently practiced--do not yet pose a counterweight to the implementation of unpopular central policies or the leading role of the Communist Party. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Unpopular

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Al Hunt	You know, Don Evans artfully ducked the Harvey Pitt question. But my favorite answer was, when asked what unpopular positions George Bush has taken, he said, he was willing to stand up for steel workers.
Rush Limbaugh	Reuters reported on Wednesday that a spokesman from the State Department invited about twenty scholars to a two-day conference in September to hear their views on why our country seems so unpopular abroad.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Unpopular

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	We were still struggling with the after-effects of a long, unpopular, and bloody war in Southeast Asia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unpopular

"Unpopular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpopular" is used about 641 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	641	10,166

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Unpopular

Expression using "unpopular": make oneself unpopular. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unpopular

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unpopular	11
baby name unpopular	6
name unpopular	3
people unpopular	2
kid unpopular	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unpopular

Language		Translations for "unpopular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jopopullor. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير شعبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		който не се харесва на хората, непопулярен. (various references)

Chinese		不得人心. (various references)

Czech		nepopulární, neoblíbený. (various references)

Farsi		منفور (Cussed, Hateful, Loathloth, Obnoxious, Outcast, Scurvy, Ungracious), غیرمحبوب , غیرمشهور, بدنام (Disreputable, Infamous). (various references)

Finnish		epäsuosiossa oleva. (various references)

French		impopulaire. (various references)

German		unpopulär (unpopuarly), unbeliebt. (various references)

Greek		μη δημοφιλήσ, αντιδημοτικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		népszerûtlen. (various references)

Indonesian		tak disukai (disfavor, distasteful). (various references)

Italian		malvisto (disliked), impopolare. (various references)

Pig Latin		opularunpay

Portuguese		impopular. (various references)

Romanian		nepopular. (various references)

Russian		непопулярный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nerasprostranjen, nepopularan, neomiljen. (various references)

Spanish		poco popular, no popular. (various references)

Swedish		impopulär (at a discount, invidious, out of favor, out of favour). (various references)

Turkish		tutulmayan, rağbet görmeyen, popüler olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		неходовий, непопулярний. (various references)

Vietnamese		không có tính chất quần chúng không được quần chúng yêu chuộng, không được quần chúng ưa thích. (various references)

Welsh		amhoblogaidd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Unpopular

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unpopular": unpopularities, unpopularity. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unpopular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anoplura. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unpopular"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unpopular" (pronounced u'npÄ"pyuler)
7	-p Ä" p y u l er	popular.
4	-y u l er	angular, annular, avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, cellular, circular, curricular, equiangular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, globular, granular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jocular, jugular, molecular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, rectangular, regular, secular, semicircular, singular, spectacular, testicular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular.
3	-u l er	abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unpopular

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-n-o-p-p-r-u-u"
	-2 letters: popular.
	-3 letters: poplar, prolan.
	-4 letters: apron, loran, lunar, nopal, parol, polar, pupal, ulnar, ulpan.
	-5 letters: loan, lorn, loup, lour, luau, luna, nurl, opal, oral, palp, plan, plop, porn, pour, prao, prau, proa, prop, pula, pulp, puna, pupa, purl, roan, roup, ulan, ulna, unau, upon.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-n-o-p-p-r-u-u"
	+3 letters: unpopularity.
	+4 letters: unsupportable.
	+5 letters: underpopulated, unpopularities.
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