undefeated
Britishadjective
Explanation
Has your volleyball team won every single game this season? Then it's undefeated — it hasn't been beaten yet! You'll almost always find this adjective describing sports teams or players who haven't suffered a loss, like the undefeated tennis player who's won all of her matches or the basketball team that's been undefeated for four games. Undefeated adds the prefix un-, or "not," to defeated, "beaten," which we can trace back to the Vulgar Latin diffacere, "destroy."
Example Sentences
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South Carolina beat Clark’s Hawkeyes in the 2024 national championship to cap off an undefeated season.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Tyson Fury says he took his undefeated record "for granted" as the British heavyweight appeared lean and sharp before Saturday's bout with Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Kotaskova, who was previously undefeated, wore the damage of Cameron's relentless work by the end of the fifth round, with blood coming from her nose and markings under her eyes.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
As in the baffling series of self-inflicted mistakes the legendary UConn women’s basketball coach inflicted on himself and his program during and after South Carolina’s 62-48 upset of the previously undefeated Huskies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The next season, Darlington and Peshawa worked together to score, and their team went undefeated.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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