Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Fully unacceptable or unwelcome, especially to a foreign government: The diplomat was persona non grata.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is not acceptable; one who is not in favor.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent
- n. a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
Etymologies
- Latin persona ("person") + non ("not") + grata (from gratus ("acceptable")). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin persōna nōn grāta : Latin persōna, person + Latin nōn, not + Latin grāta, feminine of grātus, acceptable. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This morning, just after 11 am Canberra time, 8 am Perth time, Australia was formally advised by Fiji that our High Commissioner to Fiji, James Batley, had been declared persona non grata and, as a consequence, was required to leave Fiji within 24 hours.”
“I knew better than to reveal that it was a Christmas present from my “Aunt Ruth,” Ruth Tryon, press attaché at the American legation, pronounced persona non grata and given twenty-four hours to pack up and leave Hungary shortly after presenting me with the magic monkey.”
“Gwendolyn was bundled away and Seymour became persona non grata to the Beattys.”
“And then another thought: how might our lives have turned out had Mrs. Shearer taken us with her, raised my sister and me as her wards at various diplomatic posts Albert “Bud” Shearer, declared persona non grata and given twenty-four hours to clear out of Hungary in 1952, went on to a distinguished diplomatic career, including as ambassador to Czechoslovakia.”
“Laird must have seen my tampering before I even did it, which gave him time to do a little tampering of his own and stamp it with my personal signature -- conferring upon me instant persona non grata status in the County.”
“Well, it was official: I was persona non grata with the Misty Falls PD.”
“Kennan was persona non grata to the Russians, especially after his visit to Siberia, but Mr. MacQueen was most cordially welcomed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘persona non grata’.
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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Latin
tempus fugit, ad absurdum, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, deus ex machina, in absentia, in loco parentis, in vino veritas, ipso facto, mea culpa, memento mori and 36 more...
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Persona non grata people
People who have upset governments.
Karl Marx, persona non grata, chartist, anarchist, agitator, novelistic ideas, grandiose, revolution, ideas, political creed, new world religion
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You loser!
indolent, persona non grata, addled, prolix, otiose, insipid, myopic, sophomoric, sequacious, ragabash, jolterhead, sleathy and 26 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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essigurken's Words
transubstantiation, pungent, omnipotent, craven, 'tis, saucy, entwine, inextricably, consummation, conglomeration, sepulchre, addendum and 264 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Appellationes Latinae
Latin terms
quidnunc, experimentum crucis, cui bono, carpe diem, pons asinorum, sine qua non, lux et veritas, oculus uterque, ancora imparo, mirabile visu, pro forma, paucis verbis and 108 more...
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thinkcharlene's Allies Adversaries etal
perfunctory, minutiae, habeas corpus, allocution, elocution, anathema, antipode, byzantine, candor, capricious, collusion, conjecture and 47 more...
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speaking in tongues
schadenfreude, naïve, gnosis, sangfroid, capisce, flagrante delicto, lux, veritas, gravitas, coquette, panache, nom de plume and 73 more...
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Sabrina's Words
oxalic, persona non grata, voyeur, coalesce, sartorial, gloaming, sublimate, susurrus, weltschmerz, ennui, minaret, mosque and 44 more...
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latinate
words/phrases/sayings from latin
in medias res, sine qua non, tempus fugit, ne plus ultra, mea culpa, a priori, actus reus, mens rea, vidi aquam, alea iacta est, annus mirabilis, annus horribilis and 67 more...
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Words that Pay the Mortgage
Words that I use on the job, whether I believe them or not.
biometrics, acronym, demarche, white paper, cable, passport, unprecedented, podcast, prothonotary, granularity, off-the-record, insuperable and 9 more...
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overseas and abroad
deus ex machina, carpe diem, pathos, freudian slip, raison d’être, carte blanche, ad nauseum, persona non grata, addendum, sine qua non, apropos, vers libre
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