unincorporated

adjective

un·​in·​cor·​po·​rat·​ed ˌən-in-ˈkȯr-pə-ˌrā-təd 

: lacking corporate status : not formed into a legal corporation : not incorporated

an unincorporated village/community

an unincorporated business/association

Examples of unincorporated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Palisades Fire killed 12 people, while the Eaton Fire took the lives of 19 others in Altadena, an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County. —City News Service, Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026

Lora Swayne, 71, was a lifelong resident of the unincorporated town, spending most of her life in west Altadena where her parents settled in the 1960s — part of a wave of new homeowners who helped form a thriving Black community. —Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026

Deputies received multiple reports of a man threatening to kill himself and others, leading them to a home in unincorporated Breckenridge. —Christa Swanson, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026

The committee also recommended two related ordinances related to noise levels and trespassing in the county’s unincorporated areas. —Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1732, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unincorporated

• ameliorated
• decontaminated
• deoxygenated
• deteriorated
• differentiated
• disarticulated
• excommunicated
• incapacitated
• individuated
• misappropriated
• monounsaturated
• multinucleated