Meanings
- not comparableNot attended; without persons present.
The meeting went largely unattended, since it took place on Christmas Eve.
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System administrators may schedule an unattended installation of the software.
Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.
1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469 - not comparableNot attended to; not receiving attention.
The fire was caused by an unattended electric blanket.
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I have been attempting to persuade gay organizations and leaders to take this approach, without concrete results. It is a serious failure of gay leadership not to have organized open defiance of sodomy laws, and my own attitude is not to wait for leaders when there is an unattended need.
1987 August 15, Tom Keske, “Open Defiance of Sodomy Laws”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot watched
adjectivelacking accompaniment or a guard or escort
adjectivelacking a caretaker
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-
- Englishattended
- Englishunattended
Translations
Esperanto seneskorte
- seneskortenot attended
German unbeaufsichtigt
- unbeaufsichtigtnot attended
Hungarian őrizetlen, gazdátlan
- őrizetlennot attended
- gazdátlannot attended
- kíséret/felügyelet/őrizet nélkülinot attended
Spanish sin supervisión / vigilancia, descuidado
- sin supervisión / vigilancianot attended
- descuidadonot attended
- desatendidonot attended
Cite this entry
unattended. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattended
“unattended.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattended. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unattended,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattended.
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