UNAIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaided mean? 

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

1. carried out without aid or assistance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carried out without aid or assistance

Context example:

his first unaided walk through the park

Similar:

unassisted (lacking help)

 Context examples 

He found that the stone which covered it was just too heavy for a man to move unaided.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Graphene is invisible to the unaided eye, yet harder than diamonds, stronger than steel, and more conductive than copper.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

In the image, infrared wavelengths, which are invisible to the unaided eye, have been assigned visible colors.

(A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars, NASA)

Instead of a typical spike-like structure, the bioreactor treatment resulted in a paddle-like formation closer to a fully formed limb than unaided regeneration could create.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The asteroid's apparent magnitude at that time will be about 11.5, rendering it unobservable to the unaided eye.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The application of microscope magnification to the study of materials that cannot be properly seen by the unaided eye.

(Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

To the unaided eye the famous, bright star Antares shines with a strong red tint in the heart of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Not for nothing had he been exposed to the pitiless struggles for life in the day of his cubhood, when his mother and he, alone and unaided, held their own and survived in the ferocious environment of the Wild.

(White Fang, by Jack London)