uncommercial
adjective
un·com·mer·cial
ˌən-kə-ˈmər-shəl 
1
: not engaged in or related to commerce
2
: not based on commercial principles
3
: not likely to result in financial success
an uncommercial book
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Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 22 May 2024
Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
The WTF Album is another beast entirely — a blatantly uncommercial record with almost zero chance of moving product, as the industry likes to say.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
Yet, as uncommercial as that sounds, that album and their three previous LPs all made it into Billboard’s Top Ten.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
For the Masses was meant as a tongue-in-cheek joke about what the band considered an uncompromising and uncommercial album.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2023
Peppering their set with lots of new tunes — a comeback record is on the way — the group adhered to any number of uncommercial styles and sounds, but always returned to the basics of hard rhythms, overblown guitars, and greasy blues harp.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
That is, Pages stacked the deck in favour of the quirky, the prickly, the heroically uncommercial.
—Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
The archetype for such artists is Icelandic visionary Björk, known for both her startling visuals and music that flirts with the mainstream while steeped in more exploratory and uncommercial sounds.
—Mark Richardson, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
Never has an album this uncommercial blossomed into a structurally experimental musical and succeeded with Broadway crowds and critics, nabbing four 2024 Tony nominations, including best musical.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 22 May 2024
Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
The WTF Album is another beast entirely — a blatantly uncommercial record with almost zero chance of moving product, as the industry likes to say.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
Yet, as uncommercial as that sounds, that album and their three previous LPs all made it into Billboard’s Top Ten.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
For the Masses was meant as a tongue-in-cheek joke about what the band considered an uncompromising and uncommercial album.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2023
Peppering their set with lots of new tunes — a comeback record is on the way — the group adhered to any number of uncommercial styles and sounds, but always returned to the basics of hard rhythms, overblown guitars, and greasy blues harp.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
That is, Pages stacked the deck in favour of the quirky, the prickly, the heroically uncommercial.
—Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
The archetype for such artists is Icelandic visionary Björk, known for both her startling visuals and music that flirts with the mainstream while steeped in more exploratory and uncommercial sounds.
—Mark Richardson, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
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“Uncommercial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncommercial. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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