unassisted

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ assisted.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unassisted (not comparable)

1. Not assisted; without assistance [1610s]
   • 2012, Laura Kaplan Shanley, Unassisted Childbirth, →ISBN, page 80:

     Moran did not support these women, nor did she believe that women should catch their own babies in an unassisted birth.

Derived terms

• unassisted suicide

 

Adverb

unassisted (comparative more unassisted, superlative most unassisted)

1. Without assistance.

   Synonym: unassistedly

   • 2006, Diane Louise Szarkowicz, Observations and Reflections in Childhood, →ISBN, page 4:

     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.

   • 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:

     […] he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.

Translations

without assistance

• Bulgarian: без чужда помощ (bez čužda pomošt)
• Danish: uassisteret
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uassistert

• Ottoman Turkish: یالڭز (yalñız)
• Spanish: desasistido (es)