unguarded

«unguarded» in Mova's school dictionary: not watched or protected by anyone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Unguarded means not watched or protected by anyone. tree →

2) An unguarded moment or remark is one when you are not careful and say or show something you meant to keep secret. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety talk, an unguarded fire or pool is dangerous because nobody is watching. In sport, an unguarded player or goal is free and open. In stories, a character lets slip a secret «in an unguarded moment». In The Wind in the Willows Toad escapes when the gate is unguarded.

examples

• Never leave a fire unguarded. tree →
• The goal was unguarded and he scored easily. tree →
• Toad slipped past the unguarded gate. tree →
• In an unguarded moment, she told us her secret. tree →
• The castle was left unguarded at night. tree →
• The bags were unguarded on the train. tree →

note

Made of «un-» + «guarded». The «u» after g is silent: un-GAR-did.

In the corpora

• The Badger: «He must never be left an instant unguarded … till the poison has worked itself out of his system».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unguarded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.