adjective
Not welcome; not approved: The aide, having been declared non grata, was expelled from the country.
Origin of non grata
From persona non gratanon grata
non gra·taTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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