unsupervised

adjective

un·​su·​per·​vised ˌən-ˈsü-pər-ˌvīzd 

: not watched or overseen by someone in authority : not supervised

unsupervised teenagers

an unsupervised visit

Examples of unsupervised in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That exceeds the usury caps on unsupervised consumer loan interest rates of 12% to 21% in Colorado. — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Broader cultural adoption driven by testimonials like Smith’s, and tighter clinical guardrails as physicians push back on unsupervised extended fasts. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Ada County Magistrate Judge Laurie Fortier sentenced Chavez to six months of unsupervised probation, and he is required to complete an anger management course within three months of sentencing. — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026

Whether the ban was a masterful gambit or an unsupervised temper tantrum, its most revealing consequence—and, perhaps, point of contrast with Acostagate—has been in the strong reaction of the targets’ colleagues in the media. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing unsupervised

• unsupervised machine learning

Rhymes for unsupervised

• americanized
• anathematized
• collateralized
• contextualized
• conventionalized
• demilitarized
• demineralized
• departmentalized
• depersonalized
• industrialised
• industrialized
• materialised