Meanings
- not comparableWithout the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.
2 more examples
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 25Superheating, 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecarried out without aid or assistance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishaided
- Englishunaided
Translations
Esperanto sen-ila
- sen-ilawithout the aid of someone or something else
German bloß
- bloßwithout the aid of someone or something else
Greek αβοήθητος
- αβοήθητος (avoḯthitos)without the aid of someone or something else
Polish samodzielny
- samodzielnywithout the aid of someone or something else
Turkish çıplak, yalın
- çıplakwithout the aid of someone or something else
- yalınwithout the aid of someone or something else
- yalnızwithout the aid of someone or something else
Cite this entry
unaided. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaided
“unaided.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaided. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unaided,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaided.
Source: unaided on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.