unaided

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English aided

English unaided

From un- + aided.

Adjective

unaided (not comparable)

1. Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.

   Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 25:

     So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.

   • 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:

     Superheating, 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.

Derived terms

• unaided awareness
• unaidedly

Translations

without the aid of someone or something else

• Esperanto: sen-ila
• German: bloß (de)
• Greek: αβοήθητος (el) (avoḯthitos)
• Polish: samodzielny (pl)
• Turkish: çıplak (tr), yalın (tr), yalnız (tr)