unaided
adjEtymology From un- + aided.
1
Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
- Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.
- So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 25:
1 more example
- Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
- Derived terms
- unaided awareness, unaidedly