unguidedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈɡʌɪdᵻd/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈɡʌɪdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈɡaɪdᵻd/ a. Not guided in a particular path or direction; left to take one's own course or way.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [adjective] > guided or led > not
unguided1585
indirected1601
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xix. 341 The ship cannot keepe hir right course vnguided but will fall vpon euerie sande.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iii. sig. H4v Ha. The worlds a Labyrinth, where unguided men Walke up and downe to find their wearinesse.
1674 R. Boyle About Excellency & Grounds Mech. Hypothesis 3 in Excellency Theol. The material parts being able by their own unguided motions, to cast themselves into such a system.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 441 Unguided hence my trembling steps I bend.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 14 Not by Heaven unseen Nor with unguided feet Thy steps have reached this secret place.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxi. 211 The dogs speed from hut to hut, almost unguided by their drivers.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ii. 13 An unguided ramble into its recesses in bad weather.
b. figurative. Of action, conduct, etc.: Undirected, uncontrolled.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective]
wildc1000
unthewedc1175
wanton?a1300
rabbisha1387
irregular1395
inordinate1398
unruly1400
misgoverned?a1425
misruled?a1425
misruly?a1425
unruleful1439
seditious1447
rulelessc1460
turbulous1527
undaunted1533
turbulent1538
unordinate1561
rowsey1565
misorderlya1568
disruly1570
rabbling1575
disorderous1579
irregulate1579
disorderly1585
break-dance1587
willyart?1590
unguided1600
inorderly1606
anarchial1609
irregulousa1616
unmasterlya1623
uncomposed1631
obstreperous1641
disriegled1657
ranting1658
rantipole1660
reuling1691
shandy1691
rumblegarie1722
randy1723
obstropolous1727
wanruly1773
polrumptious1787
ree-raw1800
rambunctious1830
roid1874
unordered1929
rogue1948
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 59 Th'unguyded daies, And rotten times that you shall looke vpon. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 37 Passions unguided, are for the most part meere Madnesse.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 167. ⁋1 The unhappy Force of an Imagination, unguided by the Check of Reason and Judgment.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 212 He..has left his own houshold unchastened and unguided.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 26 It [Protestantism] sprung up spontaneously, unguided, unexcited,..among the masses of the nation.
1884 ‘G. Eliot’ Ess. 364 They are not left to their own unguided rashness, or their own unguided pusillanimity.
Derivatives
unˈguidedly adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously
riotously?1435
tempestuously1447
riotibly1509
royetously1536
tumultuously1548
disorderly1564
disorderously1579
turbulently1602
tumultuarily1609
routously1615
uproarishly1647
unguidedly1660
mobbishly1716
a-riot1834
rumbustiously1840
riotingly1846
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. ii. i. 153 To discharge all his actions at randome, and permit his natural appetites to run unguidedly at a venture.
1885 E. F. Byrrne Entangled i. xi Her tongue spoke strangely and unguidedly.
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