unaided
/ənˈeɪdɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
Example Sentences
- "Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye."
- "So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre."
- "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."
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.