Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
not required or requested;
- Example: "uncalled-for suggestions"2.
unnecessary and unwarranted;
- Example: "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"[syn: gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uncalled-for \Un*called"-for`\, a.
Not called for; not required or needed; improper; gratuitous;
wanton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uncalled-for
adj 1: not required or requested; "uncalled-for suggestions"
2: unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was
burned with needless loss of life" [syn: gratuitous,
needless, uncalled-for]