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unprotected

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,657 of 15,258neutral

Unprotected means having no defence or covering. Exposed, and nothing between you and whatever is coming.

It describes places, people and equipment, so an unprotected coastline, unprotected workers and unprotected wiring are all standard. Health uses it in a specific and important sense about sex without contraception. Computing uses it for data left without security. The word always implies that protection was possible and is absent, which is what makes it a warning rather than a description.

Definitions of unprotected

  1. 1adjectiveunprotectedHaving no covering, defence or safeguard.B2

    “The cables had been left unprotected.”

Where it comes from

From un- + protected.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 8 of A Man Called Ove.

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unprotected in the wild

  • Some software that can play EVO files include PowerDVD, WinDVD for Windows, FFmpeg for Linux (unprotected EVO only), and the cross platform VLC Player.

    Enhanced VOB

  • The Java resembled the Spanish unprotected cruisers of the Velasco class, which were used for colonial duties.

    HNLMS Java (1885)

  • An unprotected cruiser lacked even this level of internal protection.

    Unprotected cruiser

  • Aside from these sites, there are many others which are unprotected or privately owned.

    Cultural heritage in Pakistan

  • In the 1880s and 1890s, Germany built nine unprotected cruisers in three classes.

    List of unprotected cruisers of Germany

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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.