Unguarded
[ʌn'gɑːdɪd] or [ʌn'ɡɑrdɪd]
Definition
(adj.) displaying or feeling no wariness; 'an unguarded remark' .
(adj.) lacking protection or a guard; 'an unguarded gate'; 'his unguarded queen was open to attack' .
Checker: Wendy--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Undefended, unprotected, defenceless, naked, not guarded.[2]. Careless, incautious, thoughtless.
Editor: Martin
Definition
adj. without guard or protection: careless.—adv. Unguar′dedly.—n. Unguar′dedness.
Inputed by Byron
Examples
- 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.
- As my eyes wandered about the garden, the sight of the hundreds of air craft lying unguarded around us suggested the simplest avenue to freedom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Why, see how perfectly unguarded they leave their craft, as though they were lying safe in their own hangars at home. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Calumny, even from the mouth of a fool, will sometimes cut into unguarded feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What, indeed, if fortune had been kind enough to place the hideous creature alone and unguarded in my hands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I have a warm, unguarded temper, and I may have spoken my opinion _of_ him, and _to_ him, too freely. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I'm dreadfully afraid of being tempted, at an unguarded moment, by the aunt. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The exposed machinery creaked and groaned, the unguarded paddle-wheels revolved ponderously and splashed a great deal of water, the tiller was badly placed for steering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then for four hours the despatch-box had lain unguarded? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If I had done it as alleged, should I have left that unguarded place which that false and wicked witness against me so infamously deposed to? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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