unsupportedadjective
uk/ˌʌn.səˈpɔː.tɪd/us/ˌʌn.səˈpɔːr.t̬ɪd/unsupported adjective (OPINION)
If someone's opinions or statements are unsupported, they do not have any proof or evidence to show that they are true:
unsupported allegations
Most of the report consists of generalized observations, unsupported by dates, names and times.
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Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- tenuous
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- vague
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unsupported adjective (PERSON)
not receiving any help or encouragement from other people:
He made several attempts to reach the North Pole unsupported.
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Unaided and working alone
- fend for yourself
- go
- go it alone idiom
- independent
- own
- self-help
- self-reliant
- self-sufficient
- single-handed
- stand
- stand on your own (two) feet idiom
- stand-alone
- steam
- throw
- throw sb back on their own resources idiom
- unaided
- unassisted
- unforced
- with your own fair hand(s) idiom
- yourself
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unsupported adjective (STRUCTURE)
An unsupported structure or object does not use any other object or person to support its weight, especially from below to stop it from falling:
to stand unsupported
the largest unsupported marble dome in the world
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Physical supports and supporting
- backbone
- bearing
- bolster
- bookend
- buoy
- burden
- buttress
- cantilever
- groan
- pile
- pillar
- rafter
- runner
- scaffold
- scaffolding
- shore
- shore sth up
- skid
- stem
- stilt
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