unaided

adjective

un·​aid·​ed ˌən-ˈā-dəd 

: not provided with help or assistance

a star that is visible to the unaided eye [=that can be seen without a telescope or binoculars]

: not aided or assisted

paid for her education unaided by her parents

… he walks unaided except for a simple wooden cane.

—Kate Coyne

Examples of unaided in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bowers was then seen after Sunday’s game walking, unaided, out of the locker room with a sleeve on his left leg. — Sam Warren, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Data from medicine and other fields including chess suggest that once autonomous AI beats unaided humans, autonomous AI shortly thereafter consistently beats human-AI hybrids. — Abe Baker-Butler, STAT, 9 Sep. 2026

An unusually large and brilliant red prominence, readily visible even with the unaided eye, appeared at the 9 o'clock position. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Microbes, also called microorganisms, are living agents that are too small to be seen with the unaided eye. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1667, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unaided

• abraded
• arcaded
• blockaded
• brocaded
• cascaded
• degraded
• dissuaded
• downgraded
• evaded
• hydatid
• invaded
• paraded