Unattended
[ʌnə'tendɪd] or [,ʌnə'tɛndɪd]
Definition
(adj.) lacking accompaniment or a guard or escort; 'unattended women'; 'problems unattended with danger' .
(adj.) not watched; 'she dashed out leaving the bar unattended'; 'a fire left unattended' .
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Definition
adj. not accompanied or attended: not attended to.—adjs. Unattend′ing not attending; Unattent′ive inattentive.
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Examples
- Love and hatred might have been unattended with any such desires, or their particular connexion might have been entirely reversed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He remained to combat the fiend--his side unguarded, his toils unshared--infection might even reach him, and he die unattended and alone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For pride and humility are pure emotions in the soul, unattended with any desire, and not immediately exciting us to action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To satisfy these incredulous gentlemen, I renewed my applications to His Grace; but they were unattended to, as before. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- About the same time arrived Cedric the Saxon, with the Lady Rowena, unattended, however, by Athelstane. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an imprudent one for two unattended women. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was successful and unattended by heavy loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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