unrated

American  

[uhn-rey-tid] / ʌnˈreɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. not having or not given a rating or ranking.

   The safety rating for this car applies only to the diesel version—the gasoline versions are unrated.

2. (of a motion picture) not given a rating by the MPA.

   The Blu-ray edition includes the theatrical release as well as an extended, unrated cut and a heap of additional found footage.

3. not having been assigned a creditworthiness rating, as a financial instrument.

   The fund may invest no more than 10 percent of its total assets in lower-rated or unrated corporate bonds, commonly referred to as junk bonds.

4. not having earned a competition ranking or rating, as a sports team or athlete.

   Unrated players will be given a provisional rating for the purposes of assigning tournament opponents.

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Etymology

Origin of unrated

First recorded in 1645–55; un- ¹ ( def. ) + rated ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Other films given an NC-17 have opted — like the team behind “Passages” — to reject the rating and go unrated, such as Todd Solondz’s “Happiness” and Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

We don’t fact-check opinions, so we will leave this unrated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

The letter listed a series of risk areas including the £370m invested in unrated bonds, high levels of debt and "huge exposure" to local authority funding.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2022

So how did an unrated, almost two-and-a-half-hour slasher film — made for $250,000 and starring nobody you’ve heard of — become the little horror movie that could?

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022

In the course of a few years after this, sloops, bombs, fire-ships, and yachts are spoken of as among the unrated classes; but in the sixth-rate were comprised vessels mounting only two guns.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles