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Unbacked

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Lacking backing or support.

adj. Not having a back.

adj. Never having been ridden, as a horse.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having no back

adj. Having no (or few) backers

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Never mounted by a rider; unbroken.

adj. Not supported or encouraged; not countenanced; unaided.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not having been backed; not taught to bear a rider; unbroken.

Unsupported; left without aid; unaided; in sporting, not supported by bets: as, an unbacked horse.

Not moved back or backward.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. unsupported by other people

Word Usage

"But the very first number of _Punch_, as we have seen, rejoiced in a cartoon as we now understand it -- that is to say, a large full-page or double-page block of a satirical nature, usually placed in the middle opening of the paper, and for the most part still further dignified by being "unbacked" by other printing."

Equivalent

unsupported

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

unbroken unaided

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