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unpiloted

unpiloted adjective: lacking a pilot.

Adjective

unpiloted (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a pilot
    • The ship was unpiloted and adrift.
    • The trouble has been mainly due to the preceding 6.40 p.m. Sheffield express, which since being demoted from an "XL Limit" to a "Special Limit" schedule had presented unpiloted Class "6" 4-6-0s with loads at times up to 12 bogies. [In railway parlance "unpiloted" means the train had no pilot engine...1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 479

Origin of unpiloted

From un- + piloted.

Questions about unpiloted

What does unpiloted mean?
Unpiloted means lacking a pilot.
What part of speech is unpiloted?
Unpiloted is an adjective.

Words near unpiloted in the dictionary

  1. unpillaged
  2. unpillared
  3. unpilled
  4. unpilloried
  5. unpillowed
  6. unpiloted
  7. unpimped
  8. unpimpled
  9. unpin
  10. unpinch
  11. unpinched

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