niechciane

Niechciane is a Polish adjective meaning "unwanted" or "not desired." It describes things, actions, or phenomena that a person or group does not want or has not asked for. The term is commonly used to label items and communications that are not welcome, for example niechciane reklamy (unwanted advertisements), niechciane wiadomości (unwanted messages), and niechciane pytania (unwanted questions).

Grammatical use follows standard Polish agreement: niechciane modifies nouns in gender, number, and case, and can appear with both singular and plural nouns. It is formed by adding the negation prefix nie- to chciane, the participial form related to chcieć (to want).

In contemporary discourse, niechciane is often connected with issues of consent and privacy. It appears in contexts such as marketing, digital communications, and media moderation to denote content or contact that recipients did not authorize or do not wish to receive. Common collocations include niechciane treści, niechciane reklamy, niechciane dane, and niechciane kontakty.

Etymology: formed from the prefix nie- plus chciane (past participle of chcieć). Semantically, it signals the absence of desire or consent rather than an inherent quality.