UNACCOMPANIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaccompanied mean? 

• UNACCOMPANIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNACCOMPANIED has 3 senses:

1. being without an escort

2. playing or singing without accompaniment

3. (of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time

  Familiarity information: UNACCOMPANIED used as an adjective is uncommon.

• UNACCOMPANIED (adverb)
  The adverb UNACCOMPANIED has 1 sense:

1. without anybody else or anything else

  Familiarity information: UNACCOMPANIED used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACCOMPANIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being without an escort

Similar:

alone; lone; lonely; solitary (lacking companions or companionship)

isolated; marooned; stranded (cut off or left behind)

tod (alone and on your own)

unattended (lacking accompaniment or a guard or escort)

Antonym:

accompanied (having companions or an escort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Playing or singing without accompaniment

Context example:

the soloist sang unaccompanied

Similar:

a capella; a cappella (sung without instrumental accompaniment)

solo (composed or performed by a single voice or instrument)

Antonym:

accompanied (playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of a state or an event) taking place without something specified occurring at the same time

Context example:

a headache unaccompanied by other symptoms

Similar:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

• UNACCOMPANIED (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without anybody else or anything else

Synonyms:

alone; solo; unaccompanied

Context example:

he flew solo

Pertainym:

unaccompanied (being without an escort)

 Context examples 

In some cells, as in many fungi and the fertilized eggs of many insects, nuclear division occurs within the cell unaccompanied by division of the cytoplasm and formation of daughter cells.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)

The same pressures and caresses, unaccompanied by speech, that were efficacious with the girls of the working-class, were equally efficacious with the girls above the working- class.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)