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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 byto ).
He left his studies unattended to.
unattended
/ ˌʌəˈɛԻɪ /
adjective
not looked after or cared for
unaccompanied or alone
not listened to
Word History and Origins
Origin of unattended1
Example Sentences
At the exact moment when Cauchi stabbed his first victim, the room was unattended as she was on a toilet break.
In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of homeless or unattended children were rounded up and put in orphanages or welfare centres as part of a national campaign to "clean up the streets" of South Korea.
Jost was forced to tell the show’s producer, “Retire, b—, let me run the show,” while Che was given the line, “I haven’t been that excited since I saw a white woman drinking unattended.”
"They have to assume the jet has been left unattended in a dangerous place for 13 years," he says.
In a BBC interview, he said the UK should "aspire to" the kind of safety seen in the Emirati capital – where he claimed people leave belongings unattended and return to find them untouched.
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