Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

unassisted

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,767 of 15,258leans written

Unassisted means done entirely without help. Walk unassisted, breathing unassisted, an unassisted goal.

In medicine it is a plain measure of recovery, since walking unassisted is a milestone that gets recorded. In sport it means nobody else touched the ball, and in law an unassisted death is one nobody helped bring about.

Definitions of unassisted

  1. 1adjectiveunassistedDone entirely without help.C1

    “He climbed the mountain unassisted, without guides or extra oxygen.”

unassisted is a quality.

Also accepted in games: unaided

Where it comes from

Un-, not, plus assisted, from Latin assistere, to stand by.

From un + assisted.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unassisted in the wild

  • In baseball, an unassisted triple play occurs when a defensive player makes all three outs by himself in one continuous play, without his teammates making any assists.

    Unassisted triple play

  • In MLB, a total of fifteen players have fielded an unassisted triple play, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.

    Unassisted triple play

  • Approximately 0.25% of births in the United States are unassisted.

    Unassisted childbirth

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.