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Unhindered

Definition: Unhindered

Unhindered

Adjective

1. Not slowed or blocked or interfered with; "an outlet for healthy and unhampered action"; "a priest unhampered by scruple"; "the new stock market was unhampered by tradition".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unhindered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonym: Unhindered

Synonym: unhampered (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unhindered

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Freedom

In full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unhindered

English words defined with "unhindered": charity shot, charity throw, charity tossfoul shot, free throwpenalty free throw. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unhindered": bus boarder. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unhindered

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gospel Unhindered Modern Missions and the Book of Acts (reference)

  • Unhindered Power: Forty True Stories of God at Work Around the World Through Christian Radio (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unhindered

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Greek law on commercial leases allows for the long-term unhindered use of premises where franchise businesses operate. (references)

Furthermore, since the growth of the power supply has gone largely unhindered there are many opportunities to conserve energy with energy efficient techniques. (references)

Fifty container berths are slated to be built with an average draught of at least 15 meters in depth, allowing fifth and sixth generation container ships to come and go unhindered. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

Missionaries who conduct themselves in accordance with societal expectations largely are left unhindered. (references)

Mozambique

The Christian Council reports that not all religious groups register, but unregistered groups worship unhindered by the Government. (references)

Angola

Access to the DRC and Zambia was unhindered; however, the closure of Namibia's border with the country prevented some refugees from gaining asylum in Namibia. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Chad's financial system is generally sound and unhindered by regulation, but it is quite limited in size and in the variety of services available. (references)

Ukraine

The law also provides general guarantees against expropriation, unhindered transfer of profits and post-tax revenues, and a ten-year guarantee against changes in legislation that affect these basic protections. (references)

Kenya

With the deplorable state of roads, an unhindered influx of used cars in recent years, plus lack of local manufacturing, a growing demand for spare parts and vehicle maintenance in the range of eight to ten percent annually continues. (references)

Human Rights

Bhutan

The ICRC conducted two prison visits during the year, as it has done for each of the past 7 years, and was allowed unhindered access. (references)

Lithuania

Pretrial detention applies only in the case of felonies and when it is impossible to prevent flight or to allow unhindered investigation. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

International community representatives were given widespread and for the most part unhindered access to detention facilities and prisoners in both entities. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

The agreement provides for the voluntary transfer of populations, free and unhindered access by the UNFICYP to Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north and Turkish Cypriots living in the south, and facilities for education, medical care, and religious worship. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Movement generally was unhindered for other citizens outside the war zones, but travelers who failed to produce an identity card at checkpoints risked arrest. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Unhindered

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We must seek fresh answers, unhindered by the stale prescriptions of the past.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unhindered

"Unhindered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhindered" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8136,835

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Unhindered

Expression using "unhindered": unhindered by luggage. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unhindered

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unhindered

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unhindered

Language Translations for "unhindered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

縱橫 (easy; able to move unhindered, length and width). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uhindret sedimentering (unhindered settling), retten til uhindret transitpassage (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vrije sedimentatie (unhindered settling), recht van ongehinderde doorvaart (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valtoinaan (at large, hanging down, on the loose, running loose). (various references)

   

French

  

sédimentation libre (unhindered settling), sédimentation (unhindered settling), droit de passage en transit sans entrave (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

German

  

ohne Hindernis. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απλή καθίζηση (unhindered settling), δικαίωμα ακώλυτης διέλευσης (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

akadálytalan (expidite, free, glib, unbound, unhampered, unimpeded, untrammelled), akadályozatlan (unchecked, unhampered). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak dirintangi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sedimentazione naturale (unhindered settling), diritto di passaggio in transito (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

じろじろ見る (cool sensation from passing air, gradually, smoothly, sound of air leaking, to look hard at, to look up and down, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to scrutinize, to stare at). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すいすいと (smoothly). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuchumrit (undelayed, undeterred, unencumbered), gyn lhiettrimys (abandon, freely, stintless, unconstrained, unconstrainedly, unhampered, unimpeded, without reserve), gyn cumrail. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inderedunhay

   

Portuguese

  

direito de passagem sem entraves (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

беспрепятственный (unchecked, uncrossed, unhampered, unimpeded, unobstructed, untrammelled). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sedimentación libre (unhindered settling), sedimentación (sedimentation), derecho de paso en tránsito sin obstáculos (right of unhindered passage in transit). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

engelsiz (clear, unhampered, unimpeded), engellenmemiş (unhampered, unimpeded, unobstructed, untrammelled), engellenemeyen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unhindered

Misspellings

"Unhindered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unhidered. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unhindered"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unhindered" (pronounced unhi"nderd)
6-h i" n d er dhindered.
4-n d er dblundered, engendered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, laundered, meandered, nonstandard, pandered, plundered, pondered, rendered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, surrendered, tendered, thundered, wandered, wondered.
3-d er dbewildered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, murdered, ordered, powdered, reconsidered, shouldered, shuddered.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unhindered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-u"

-2 letters: hindered, undenied.

-3 letters: denuder, endured, hundred, inhered, inurned, neurine, undried, unended, unhired.

-4 letters: denied, denier, denned, denude, deride, dinned, dinner, dudeen, duende, dunned, dunner, durned, endrin, endued, endure, enured, heired, herded, herein, hidden, hinder, indeed, indene, indued, inhere, inured, nereid, redden, reined, rended, ridden, rinded, ruined, undine, ureide.

-5 letters: diene, dined, diner, dreed, dried.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-h-i-n-n-r-u"
 

+4 letters: undernourished.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unhindered


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 68 69 6E 64 65 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0069 006E 0064 0065 0072 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807475807071847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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