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单词 unchallenged
释义

unchallenged

(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)
adjective
not having been challenged or questioned
thirty years of unchallenged power
Derived forms
unchallengeable (unˈchallengeable)
adjective

Examples of 'unchallenged' in a sentence
unchallenged

If he could just walk in unchallenged so could anyone with far more sinister intentions.
The Sun (2016)
What he would have done for such unchallenged power yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Chambers was unchallenged to power in a header.
The Sun (2016)
American global power was unchallenged and overwhelming.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We have also seen that these ideas have not gone unchallenged.
Walklate, Sandra Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process (1989)
Such attitudes go unchallenged by the play.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
False rumours cannot go unchallenged in the future.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
These views have not gone unchallenged.
Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)
Instead, she let the bully go unchallenged.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
And Britain would be the unchallenged leader of this group.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
HOW could such abuse have been so widespread and yet gone unchallenged and unreported for so long?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This was an unlawful interference with a key aspect of press freedom, which cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And it's all going on largely unchallenged behind the sacred veil of secrecy that covers the family courts system.
The Sun (2011)
That surely cannot go unchallenged.
The Sun (2009)
But since their clientele shop routinely in their stores and so lack any alternative point of reference, this fact usually goes unchallenged.
Joanna Blythman SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets (2004)
Yet these statistics mostly go unchallenged, as if the mere fact that numbers are involved implies the absolute certainty of what they are saying.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Big vested interests like the energy companies have gone unchallenged, while you're being ripped off.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
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.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
unchallenged

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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