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unattended
[ uhn-uh-ten-did ]
adjective
- without attendance; lacking an audience, spectators, etc.:
The decision was made out of the public eye, in an unattended meeting.
- not accompanied; not associated with, as a concomitant effect or result:
a flash of lightning unattended by thunder.
- not cared for or ministered to:
unattended patients;
an unattended injury.
- not taken in charge; not watched over:
Many forest fires start from unattended campfires.
Careful, or your unattended baggage may be picked up by airport security.
- not accompanied, as by an attendant or companion; alone:
The queen was unattended.
- unheeded; not listened to; disregarded:
A number of unattended warning signals preceded the explosion.
- not tended to; not done or carried out, as a task (usually followed by to ):
He left his studies unattended to.
unattended
/ ˌʌ²Ôəˈ³ÙÉ›²Ô»åɪ»å /
adjective
- not looked after or cared for
- unaccompanied or alone
- not listened to
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of unattended1
Example Sentences
The lot had previously been rented for various community and private events throughout the year, but otherwise it sat unattended to.
The jury heard he should have been under constant observation but was left unattended.
Audiences were not infrequently treated to a blackened screen and the slap-slap-slapping of a spent film, spinning away, unattended.
It turned out that the used needles actually belonged to the owners of a diabetic cat named Trotsky, who’d momentarily left their rubbish unattended only for it to spill over and be photographed by reporters.
She now wants to warn others about the dangers of candles, and said they should not be left unattended "even for two minutes".
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