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unsupported en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English unsupported, equivalent to un- + supported.

Meanings

1. Without physical support.
   • This makes it the thinnest unsupported gold ever created and it could be used in electronics and medical devices going forward. 2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:
   • The bombed bridge was left unsupported and soon collapsed.
2. For which support or help is not available.
   • This obsolete software is unsupported. Please upgrade to the latest version.
3. Without confirmation from a credible source, without verifying support
   • Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization. 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023:
   • The sentence was unsupported by an inline citation or general bibliographic reference source notes.
   • The newspaper wrote that Jorn Barger, who started his Robot Wisdom weblog in 1997, is "regarded by many" as the "first blogger". But who are these "many"? If a blogger had written that phrase, it would have come with a link to the source. The Wall Street Journal's unsupported claim, though hedged with admissions of other contenders to the "first blogger" title, only reinforced the feeling, endemic among bloggers, that the mainstream media, derisively acronymised as MSM, just can't get anything right. 2007 August 28, Scott Rosenberg, The Guardian:
4. Not supported by or borne out of evidence or facts.

Forms

Deriveds

unsupportedness · unsupportedly

Synonyms

groundless · ungrounded · unsupported · idle · unfounded · unjustified · unproved · unsubstantiated · baseless · footless · unproven · nonsupported

Translations (14)

grc ἀστήρικτος (without support) · de ungestützt (without support) · cs nepodporovaný (without support) · hi निराश्रित (without support) · de unbestätigt (without confirmation) · ka მხარდაუჭერელი (without support) · ka მხარდაჭერის გარეშე (without support) · fi tueton (without support) · bg неподкрепен (without support) · ka მხარდაჭერის არმქონე (without support) · de nicht unterstützt (without support) · fi tukematon (without support) · ru неподде́рживаемый (without support) · sv ounderbyggd (without support)