unaided en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English aided English unaided From un- + aided.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.
Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.
1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 25:
Deriveds
Translations (7)
tr çıplak (without the aid of someone or something else) · de bloß (without the aid of someone or something else) · pl samodzielny (without the aid of someone or something else) · el αβοήθητος (without the aid of someone or something else) · tr yalın (without the aid of someone or something else) · eo sen-ila (without the aid of someone or something else) · tr yalnız (without the aid of someone or something else)