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unassisted en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio

Etymology

From un- + assisted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not assisted; without assistance
    • Moran did not support these women, nor did she believe that women should catch their own babies in an unassisted birth. 2012, Laura Kaplan Shanley, Unassisted Childbirth, →ISBN, page 80:

Deriveds

unassisted suicide

unassisted en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio

Etymology

From un- + assisted.

Meanings

  1. Without assistance.
    • Imagine if children never got any feedback, such as praise and encouragement, as they learnt to walk and only received it when they could walk unassisted. 2006, Diane Louise Szarkowicz, Observations and Reflections in Childhood, →ISBN, page 4:
    • […] he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most unassisted Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unassisted Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

unassistedly

Translations (5)

nb uassistert (without assistance) · bg без чужда помощ (without assistance) · es desasistido (without assistance) · da uassisteret (without assistance) · ota یالڭز (without assistance)