Unsupported
[ʌnsə'pɔːtɪd] or ['ʌnsə'pɔrtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not held up or borne; 'removal of the central post left the roof unsupported' .
(adj.) not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid; 'unsupported accusations' .
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Examples
- Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honour, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardships. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Some difficulties had been passed through; a sort of victory was won: my homeless, anchorless, unsupported mind had again leisure for a brief repose. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But the pillar remained miraculously suspended in the air, and, unsupported itself, supported then and still supports the roof. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The new Russian republic had to fight unsupported. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ursula