unguided

comparative more unguided · superlative most unguided

1. Not guided; without a guide.

   Genie was an unguided missile. Since it was armed with a nuclear warhead, accuracy was not really necessary[…]

   1998, Turner Publishing Company, Air Force Missileers, page 13

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   My unguided tour through the humanities would likely be unbalanced, but I hoped that this could be made up for by the sheer number of books read.

   1977, Philip McCord Morse, In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life, page 33

   Because skeletons often show alterations that are the result of more than one condition, simply listing all lesions unguided by any diagnostic hypotheses would result in an incoherent list of features that could not be meaningfully combined into a diagnostic framework.

   2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 26