unled en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + led.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not led; without guidance or leadership.
But the child's mind, unled, but not misled, had pondered on these things, and her heart had grown to love them; and perhaps no student of Spanish architecture, no antiquary of Moyen-age relics, loved St. Gudule and the Broodhuis as little ignorant Bebee did.
1896, Ouida, Bebee:Thus in the crisis of the Nation's fate we are ungoverned and unled, and to all appearance we are content to be so, and the leader-writers trained in the tradition of respectable formalism interpret the Nation's apathy as fortitude.
1900, Spenser Wilkinson, Lessons of the War: