unpopularadjective
uk/ʌnˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ʌnˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/B2 not liked by many people:
Night flights from the airport are unpopular.
The president is becoming increasingly unpopular.
More examples
- It was an unpopular policy and caused a number of conflicts within the party.
- Her sense of superiority makes her very unpopular.
- The policy of charging air travellers for vegetarian meals proved very unpopular.
- Such unpopular legislation is unlikely to be introduced before the next election.
- The tax was so unpopular that the government decided to drop it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liked, or not liked, by many people
- acquire
- an acquired taste idiom
- be in sb's good/bad books idiom
- be the new rock and roll idiom
- be welcome to idiom
- cross
- flavour of the month idiom
- gain
- golden boy/girl
- killer app
- lose
- lose ground idiom
- must-have
- pack
- pop
- sought after
- top-rated
- undesirable
- unlovable
- unwanted
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unpopularity
noun [ U ] uk/ˌʌn.pɒp.jəˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌʌn.pɑː.pjəˈler.ə.t̬i/