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(ʌntʃælɪndʒd) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE after verb, ADJECTIVE noun, verb-link ADJECTIVE]When something goes unchallenged or is unchallenged, people accept it without asking questions about whether it is right or wrong. These views have not gone unchallenged. She couldn't let that pass unchallenged. ...the unchallenged principle of parliamentary sovereignty. His integrity was unchallenged. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun, ADJECTIVE after verb, verb-link ADJECTIVE]If you say that someone's position of authority is unchallenged, you mean that it is strong and no one tries to replace them. He is the unchallenged leader of the strongest republic. ...the man who has led his party unchallenged for over thirty years. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE after verb]If you do something unchallenged, nobody stops you and asks you questions, for example about who you are or why you are doing it. I managed to walk around unchallenged for 10 minutes before an alert nurse spottedme. unchallenged in British English (ʌnˈtʃælɪndʒd) adjectivenot having been challenged or questioned thirty years of unchallenged power Derived forms unchallengeable (unˈchallengeable) adjective Examples of 'unchallenged' in a sentenceunchallenged If he could just walk in unchallenged so could anyone with far more sinister intentions.What he would have done for such unchallenged power yesterday.Chambers was unchallenged to power in a header.American global power was unchallenged and overwhelming.We have also seen that these ideas have not gone unchallenged.Such attitudes go unchallenged by the play.False rumours cannot go unchallenged in the future.These views have not gone unchallenged.Instead, she let the bully go unchallenged.And Britain would be the unchallenged leader of this group.HOW could such abuse have been so widespread and yet gone unchallenged and unreported for so long?This was an unlawful interference with a key aspect of press freedom, which cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.And it's all going on largely unchallenged behind the sacred veil of secrecy that covers the family courts system.That surely cannot go unchallenged.But since their clientele shop routinely in their stores and so lack any alternative point of reference, this fact usually goes unchallenged.Yet these statistics mostly go unchallenged, as if the mere fact that numbers are involved implies the absolute certainty of what they are saying.Big vested interests like the energy companies have gone unchallenged, while you're being ripped off.These are politicians who have rarely ventured abroad, who wield almost unchallenged power at home and whose main frame of reference for international relations is proper protocol. In other languagesunchallenged British English: unchallenged ADJECTIVE When something goes unchallenged or is unchallenged, people accept it without asking questions about whether it is right or wrong. These views have not gone unchallenged. - American English: unchallenged
- Brazilian Portuguese: incontestado
- Chinese: 未受到过质疑的
- European Spanish: incontestado
- French: non contestéN
- German: unbestritten
- Italian: incontestato
- Japanese: 挑戦されていない
- Korean: 문제 삼지 않은
- European Portuguese: incontestado
- Latin American Spanish: incontestado
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