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

The company also pointed out that Herrera had several high-level positive tests for methamphetamine in the fall of 2020, nine months after the court took away her unsupervised parenting time. —Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2026

Markel became increasingly distrustful of Donna Adelson due to her desire to move the children away from him, even filing a motion to prevent her from having unsupervised visits with the children in 2014. —Mason Leath, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2026

Tesla also plans to launch Full Self-Driving in an unsupervised mode and expand its energy storage operations with Megapack 3 and Megablock systems to support large-scale grid storage. —Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026

The teens were there unsupervised, police say, a violation of the Atlantic Station rules. —Irene Wright, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025

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
• industrialised
• industrialized
• materialised
• materialized