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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unprotected
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unprotected sex (=sex without a condom)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An unprotected stove pipe should be at least 18 inches from an unprotected wall or ceiling.
▪ In the United States, volunteers are shooed away from spill cleanup, deemed too toxic for unprotected citizens.
▪ It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap.
▪ Jonathon's eyes, unprotected, blinked on and off, unused to open air.
▪ Leave it too late and you may climb dangerously unprotected.
▪ Soon, she imagined, it would fall completely and leave her unprotected.
▪ The security chiefs agreed that their efforts at making schools safe still leave students unprotected on their way to and from school.
▪ This unprotected window provides an X-ray hazard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unprotected

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of protect (v.).

Wiktionary
unprotected

a. Not protected; lacking defense or protection; exposed.

WordNet
unprotected
  1. adj. lacking protection or defense [ant: protected]

  2. lacking protection or a guard; "an unguarded gate"; "his unguarded queen was open to attack" [syn: unguarded]

Wikipedia
Unprotected

Unprotected is a 1916 American drama silent film directed by James Young and written by James Hatton. The film stars Blanche Sweet, Theodore Roberts, Ernest Joy, Tom Forman, Walter Long and Mrs. Lewis McCord. The film was released on November 6, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.

Usage examples of "unprotected".

What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

But both VB-6 lieutenants assigned the photo mission carried it out alone and unprotected.

Berque was a man to trust for less distance then he could be thrown one-handed, and one not to turn an unprotected back to under any circumstances, Maro figured.

There was a chance that the swindler would come to his house in his usual fashion, unprotected by Silk Marron and the thugs.

He walked through the gelatinous wall of his vessel and stepped out, unprotected except for a film of sparkling moisture and his pearlescent gossamer garment, onto black ice and grayish-white snow.

The only means of escape was by the Rue Saint Sauveur, and to reach the corner of the Rue Saint Sauveur it was necessary to get over the lower part of the barricade, which left nearly the whole of the fugitives unprotected.

He did not strike Scurn in the face, as some would have, but rather on the unprotected neck.

Another had his unprotected skull cleaved by a spatha, the bearded face exploding in a spray of blood.

Identifying the good with the desirable rather than with pleasure in either of its two senses still leaves them unprotected against subjectivism and relativism.

Shelby Taite, the heiress, was on the run, out in the world, unprotected?

His researchers found an unmined and unprotected deposit of uranium in the Andes mountains of Bolivia.

He stood before one now, and Kirk noted that the statue stood simply on the antechamber floor, unprotected and unseparated from the crowd in any way.

A stench of sap and roasting vegetables and unsmelt defensive pheno-mones that whip the unprotected into a screaming panic.

Warg grunted to Grunk, who ran towards the scrum and tore into them, taking six players down as Warg whacked the ball towards the now unprotected peg.

Instantly rain slashed across the unprotected amphitheater, vaporizing where molten rock pooled sullenly.