🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

conselho não solicitado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kõˈse.ʎu nãw so.li.siˈta.du

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unsolicited advice/ˌʌn.səˈlɪs.ɪ.tɪd ədˈvaɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela ignorou o conselho não solicitado do colega."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Guidance, opinions, or recommendations given to someone without them asking for it.

    "She was tired of receiving unsolicited advice about how to raise her children."
  2. 2

    Suggestions offered by someone who presumes to know better, often perceived as intrusive or patronizing.

    "Online forums are frequently cluttered with unsolicited advice from armchair experts."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'unsolicited,' derived from Latin 'sollicitus' (meaning anxious or concerned) via the prefix 'un-' (not), and 'advice,' stemming from Old French 'avis' (opinion, judgment). Historically used in formal and legal contexts, the combined phrase gained prominent cultural traction in modern interpersonal psychology to describe opinions or guidance offered without a prior request.

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