Unhampered

Definition: Unhampered

Unhampered

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".

2. Not held in check or subject to control; "unhampered dissemination of news"; "this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism".

Date "unhampered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms: Unhampered

Synonyms: free of(p) (adj), unhindered (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unhampered

English words defined with "unhampered": free of ♦ unhindered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unhampered": Free Market ♦ HURST. (references)

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Bush	1989-1993	The world saw not only their special valor but their special style, their rambunctious, optimistic bravery, their do-or-die unity unhampered by class or race or region.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unhampered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhampered" is used about 21 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	21	76,261

Expressions using "unhampered": unhampered by clothes ♦ unhampered by regulations. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unhampered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		неспъван, невъзприпятствуван. (various references)

Dutch		erfdienstbaarheid van waterloop (right to an unhampered flow of water). (various references)

Finnish		veden esteettömään kulkuun perustuva rasite (right to an unhampered flow of water). (various references)

French		servitude d'écoulement des eaux (right to an unhampered flow of water). (various references)

German		ungehindert (unchecked, uncheckedly, uncontrolled, unhamperedly, unhindered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unopposed, unopposedly, unrelieved, unrestricted, untrammeled). (various references)

Greek		ανεμπόδιστοσ (unhidered, uninhabited, unobtracted, untrammelled). (various references)

Hungarian		nem korlátozott, nem akadályozott, akadálytalan (expidite, free, glib, unbound, unhindered, unimpeded, untrammelled), akadályozatlan (unchecked, unhindered). (various references)

Italian		servitù di scolo d'acqua (right to an unhampered flow of water). (various references)

Manx		gyn lhiettrimys (abandon, freely, stintless, unconstrained, unconstrainedly, unhindered, unimpeded, without reserve). (various references)

Pig Latin		amperedunhay

Portuguese		servidão de escoamento (right to an unhampered flow of water). (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, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void). (various references)

Russian		свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), беспрепятственный (unchecked, uncrossed, unhindered, unimpeded, unobstructed, untrammelled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesputan (unconstrained, unrestricted, untrammelled), neometan (undisturbed, unencumbered, unobstructed). (various references)

Swedish		obunden (disengaged, fancy-free, footloose, free, non committal, non-commital, unattached, unbound, unfettered), obehindrad (freely, unchallenged, unimpeded, unmolested, untrammelled, without hindrance). (various references)

Turkish		serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), engelsiz (clear, unhindered, unimpeded), engellenmemiş (unhindered, unimpeded, unobstructed, untrammelled). (various references)

Vietnamese		không bị trở ngại (unimpeded, unobstructed, unstopped), không bị ngăn trở (unimpeded, untrammelled), không bị cản trở (unchecked, unimpeded). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unhampered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unchamfered, unhapered, untampered. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unhampered" (pronounced unha"mperd)
6	-h a" m p er d	hampered.
5	-a" m p er d	pampered, scampered, tampered.
4	-m p er d	tempered.
3	-p er d	leopard, papered, peppered, prospered, Shepherd, tapered, wallpapered, whispered, zippered.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-m-n-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: dampener, hampered, prehuman, unharmed.
	-3 letters: amender, duramen, ephedra, headmen, herdman, herdmen, humaner, manured, maunder, meander, premade, premune, prename, reedman, renamed, unarmed, undrape, unheard.
	-4 letters: adhere, ampere, damner, dampen, damper, daphne, demean, demure, deperm, dhurna, dumper, earned, endear, endure, enured, eupnea, hamper, harden, hareem, harmed, harped, header, heaped, heaume, hempen, hermae, humane, humped, manure.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-m-n-p-r-u"
	+3 letters: underemphases, underemphasis.
	+4 letters: underemphasize.
	+5 letters: underemphasized, underemphasizes.
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