UNIMPEDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unimpeded mean? 

• UNIMPEDED (adjective)
  The adjective UNIMPEDED has 1 sense:

1. not slowed or prevented

  Familiarity information: UNIMPEDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIMPEDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not slowed or prevented

Context example:

an unimpeded sweep of meadows and hills afforded a peaceful setting

Similar:

unobstructed (free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance)

 Context examples 

They travel at speeds just shy of the speed of light and rarely interact with other matter, allowing them to travel unimpeded across distances of billions of light-years.

(NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole, NASA)

He had the air of congratulating himself on having brought such a woman to Highbury, as not even Miss Woodhouse could equal; and the greater part of her new acquaintance, disposed to commend, or not in the habit of judging, following the lead of Miss Bates's good-will, or taking it for granted that the bride must be as clever and as agreeable as she professed herself, were very well satisfied; so that Mrs. Elton's praise passed from one mouth to another as it ought to do, unimpeded by Miss Woodhouse, who readily continued her first contribution and talked with a good grace of her being very pleasant and very elegantly dressed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)