unsupported
/ənsəpˈɔɹtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without confirmation from a credible source, without verifying support
Example Sentences
- "The bombed bridge was left unsupported and soon collapsed."
- "This makes it the thinnest unsupported gold ever created and it could be used in electronics and medical devices going forward."
- "This obsolete software is unsupported. Please upgrade to the latest version."
- "The sentence was unsupported by an inline citation or general bibliographic reference source notes."
- "The newspaper wrote that Jorn Barger, who started his Robot Wisdom weblog in 1997, is "regarded by many" as the "first blogger". But who are these "many"? If a blogger had written that phrase, it would have come with a link to the source. The Wall Street Journal's unsupported claim, though hedged with admissions of other contenders to the "first blogger" title, only reinforced the feeling, endemic among bloggers, that the mainstream media, derisively acronymised as MSM, just can't get anything right."
- "Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unsupported
Inflected Forms
more unsupported (comparative)
most unsupported (superlative)