Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Exceeding what is appropriate or normal; excessive: "I was grateful, without showing undue excitement” ( Katherine Mansfield).
- adj. Not just, proper, or legal: undue use of force.
- adj. Not yet payable or due: an undue loan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not due; not yet demandable by right; not yet owing: as, a debt, note, or bond undue.
- Not right; not lawful; improper; unworthy: as, an undue proceeding.
- Erring by excess; excessive; inordinate; disproportioned: as, an undue regard to the externals of religion; an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
Wiktionary
- adj. Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
- adj. That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
- adj. of a payment, etc. Not owing or payable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not due; not yet owing.
- adj. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper.
- adj. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances
- adj. not yet payable
- adj. lacking justification or authorization
- adj. beyond normal limits
Etymologies
- From un- + due (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Even Our Italy's president, Alessandra Mottola Molfino, a fierce critic of what she calls undue corporate influence on government arts and environment policy, sees a constructive role for free enterprise, praising the hoteliers who make preservation profitable by restoring entire medieval villages as alberghi diffusi "scattered hotels".”
“Much capital is made by certain ship owners out of what they call the undue discrimination of subsidies against their vessels; but they can never lay this charge at the door of the fast and very expensive mail packets, or elsewhere than upon the slow auxiliary propellers which any of them have a right to attempt to run, and which the Government never did and never will subsidize.”
“In Vancouver, Wash., about 700 people demonstrated against what they described as undue influence by corporations in American life.”
“Protests also took place in Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane and in Vancouver, Wash., where about 700 people demonstrated against what they described as undue influence by corporations in American life.”
“Protests also took place in Tacoma, Olympia, Yakima, Spokane and in Vancouver, Wash., where about 700 people demonstrated against what they described as undue influence by corporations in American life.”
“The ongoing discussion on the introduction of an eco-contribution on plastic carrier bags is being followed very closely by the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry which believes that such a contribution will bring what it calls undue hardship on business operators.”
“So a vegan lifestyle results in undue economic stress.”
“The work, a groundbreaking study that helped establish the field of medical statistics, showed that the unmarried died from disease “in undue proportion” to their married counterparts.”
“Of course we all know that USA does not believe in undue Government regulations and big government to protect its people ..”
“What was required was a perfume penetrating enough to obscure the bouquet of rutting goat, yet not so overpowering that it called undue attention to itself: there was little to be gained by moving from one extreme to another on the olfactory scale.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘undue’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
Scribble, Newfangled, swift, swathe, budget, obstreperous, trickle, rank, covetous, scratch, hunch, dodge and 179 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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GRE list 1
Bloviate, Bacchanalia, mirth, covet, inconsequential, prescient, heresy, revelry, modality, gentrify, vitiate, tantalize and 182 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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gumboots's Words
supercilious, undue, coreligionist, titular, kefir, lithe, complaisant, complacent, homo sovieticus, gingerly, remont, undulating and 1 more...
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snobbish
+annoying words that I sometimes can get with away using
ephemeral, caricature, addendum, apropos, existent, eponymous, deluge, illusion, makeshift, unseemly, counterproductive, morbid and 79 more...
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