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View synonyms for unofficial

unofficial

/ ˌʌnəˈfɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. not official or formal

    an unofficial engagement

  2. not confirmed officially

    an unofficial report

  3. (of a strike) not approved by the strikers' trade union
  4. (of a medicinal drug) not listed in a pharmacopoeia


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Derived Forms

  • ˌunofˈficially, adverb

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Example Sentences

It was just the anonymous artist and his group of pranksters using New York as their unofficial playground.

The video was also posted on the Twitter account of “a3maq news,” which acts as an unofficial media arm of ISIS.

The story of their visit quickly spread among the ‘Gringo Trail’ and McFadden lucked into a business as the unofficial tour guide.

TEL AVIV – If hell were a travel destination, Qusay Omran would be its unofficial tour guide.

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer and the unofficial start of the general election.

There are also executive and legislative councils, unofficial nominated members serving on the last-named council.

He is assisted by an executive council of three official and three unofficial members.

Congress, though it refused to sanction any unofficial negotiations, sent commissioners from its own body to confer with him.

For the truth is, no unofficial eye can see the Crown-Prince, or know what state he is in.

The musicians played energetically, switching now from the hymn to their unofficial little ditty.

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