unmanned

[ uhn-mand ]
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adjective
  1. without the physical presence of a person or people on board; uncrewed: an unmanned spacecraft.

  2. Falconry. (of a captured hawk) untrained for hunting with a master; unmade.

Origin of unmanned

1
First recorded in 1535–45; un-1 + manned

Words Nearby unmanned

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How to use unmanned in a sentence

  • At a game of life like this men are either unmanned, or they grow the stronger, or they give themselves to evil.

    Juana | Honore de Balzac
  • The vacancy thus suddenly opened in my life unmanned me like a physical void.

  • Her voice, its sweet tones breaking a little at the last, unmanned me.

  • They had destroyed the few unmanned ones that had been put up.

    The Planet Strappers | Raymond Zinke Gallun
  • The eyes alone would have unmanned him—under the tears he broke down utterly, and so was left without a shadow of control.

    Theo | Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett

British Dictionary definitions for unmanned

unmanned

/ (ʌnˈmænd) /


adjective
  1. lacking personnel or crew: an unmanned ship

  2. (of aircraft, spacecraft, etc) operated by automatic or remote control

  1. uninhabited

  2. falconry (of a hawk or falcon) not yet trained to accept humans

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