unhindered

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adjective

Not hindered, slowed, blocked or hampered.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveunhindered (comparative more unhindered, superlative most unhindered)

comparative more unhindered · superlative most unhindered

  1. Not hindered, slowed, blocked or hampered.

    Huddersfield: The station will be closed from August 30-September 29 to enable major Transpennine Route Upgrade work to proceed unhindered.

    2025 May 14, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 1035, page 20
    2 more examples

    Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.

    1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335

    The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.

    2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited
  2. chemistryPertaining to a molecule where the reactive center is not blocked from chemical attack due to the surrounding uncreative substituents not preventing reactive agents accessing the reactive site.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

adjectivenot slowed or blocked or interfered with

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishhindered
  9. Englishunhindered

From un- + hindered.

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Translations

Danish uhindret
  • uhindretnot hindered or hampered
German ungehindert
  • ungehindertnot hindered or hampered
Hindi निर्विघ्न, निर्बाध
  • निर्विघ्न (nirvighna)not hindered or hampered
  • निर्बाध (nirbādh)not hindered or hampered
Hungarian akadálytalan
  • akadálytalannot hindered or hampered
Latin expedītus
  • expedītusnot hindered or hampered
Polish nieograniczony
  • nieograniczonynot hindered or hampered
Russian беспрепя́тственный
  • беспрепя́тственный (besprepjátstvennyj)not hindered or hampered
Swedish obehindrad
  • obehindradnot hindered or hampered
Ukrainian безперешко́дний
  • безперешко́дний (bezpereškódnyj)not hindered or hampered
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