not liked or enjoyed by a person, a group, or people in general an unpopular choice an unpopular government unpopular with/among somebody The proposed increase in income tax proved deeply unpopular with the electorate. opposite popular
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noun [uncountable] the growing unpopularity of the military regimeSee unpopular in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: unpopular