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

Court documents show she was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered not to have any unsupervised contact with minors or to work or volunteer with children. —Joe Brandt, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026

Generally speaking, children under the age of six should never be left unsupervised, while those six and seven may be left alone but only for less than an hour. —Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 22 Jan. 2026

Startorus has therefore turned to intelligent anomaly detection systems that use both supervised and unsupervised learning strategies to enable early identification and automatic alarms, enhancing the maintenance and safety of the fusion plant. —Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026

However, curious, unleashed and unsupervised dogs will sometimes follow a coyote back to their den, and if feeling threatened, that coyote may defend itself. —Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing unsupervised

• unsupervised machine learning

Rhymes for unsupervised

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