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Voluntary vs Unsolicited - What's the difference?

voluntary | unsolicited |

As adjectives the difference between voluntary and unsolicited

is that voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will while unsolicited is not requested, welcome or invited.

As an adverb voluntary

is voluntarily.

As a noun voluntary

is a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.

voluntary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
  • * N. W. Taylor
    • That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
  • Done by design or intention; intentional.
    • If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
  • Working or done without payment.
  • Endowed with the power of willing.
  • * Hooker
    • God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
  • Of or relating to voluntaryism.
    • a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

    Synonyms

    * discretionary * optional * willful * volitional

    Antonyms

    * compulsory * involuntary * obligatory

    Derived terms

    * voluntarily

    Related terms

    * volition * voluntarism * voluntarist * volunteer * will

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Voluntarily.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • *:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].

    • Noun

    (voluntaries)
  • (music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
  • A volunteer

    • unsolicited

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not requested, welcome or invited.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

    Antonyms

    * solicited