Usually means: Not necessary, inappropriate, or excessive.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word uncalled for:

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  1. uncalled for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uncalled-for: Merriam-Webster
  3. uncalled for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uncalled-for: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uncalled-for, uncalled-for, uncalled for: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uncalled-for: Vocabulary.com
  7. uncalled-for: Wordnik
  8. uncalled-for: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uncalled-for, uncalled for: Wiktionary
  10. uncalled-for: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uncalled-for: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uncalled-for: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uncalled-for, uncalled for: Dictionary.com
  14. uncalled-for: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Uncalled-for: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. uncalled-for: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. uncalled-for: Rhymezone
  18. Uncalled-for: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. uncalled-for: FreeDictionary.org
  20. uncalled-for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. uncalled-for: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncalled-for, uncalled for: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncalled-for: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncalled for: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Uncalled for)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of uncalled-for [Unwanted; not requested or required.]

Similar:
unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted, needless, gratuitous, uncalled-for, unlooked-for, un-noticed, unmention'd, unwished-for, more...

Opposite:
called for, justified, warranted, appropriate

Phrases:
unprovoked and uncalled for, more...

Adjectives:
unlooked-for, unrealised, uncredentialed, unnamable, unrealisable, undreamed, unneighborly, unclubable, expendable, untuneable

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Similar:
unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted, needless, gratuitous, uncalled-for, unlooked-for, un-noticed, unmention'd, unwished-for, more...

Opposite:
called for, justified, warranted, appropriate

Phrases:
unprovoked and uncalled for, more...

Adjectives:
unlooked-for, unrealised, uncredentialed, unnamable, unrealisable, undreamed, unneighborly, unclubable, expendable, untuneable



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