Meanings
- not comparableNot assisted; without assistanceFirst known use 1610s
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
comparative more unassisted · superlative most unassisted
- Without assistance.
[…] 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, →OCLC1 more example
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 4Synonyms: unassistedly
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbWithout assistance.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveunsupported by other people
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian без чужда помощ
- без чужда помощ (bez čužda pomošt)without assistance
Danish uassisteret
- uassisteretwithout assistance
Norwegian Bokmål uassistert
- uassistertwithout assistance
Spanish desasistido
- desasistidowithout assistance
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unassisted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unassisted
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