undefended
Open to attack
Undefended describes something left without protection or defense.
An undefended border has no guards or fortifications.
An undefended goal in sports has no goalkeeper.
In law, an undefended case proceeds without the defendant contesting it.
Figuratively, to be emotionally undefended is to be vulnerable, without the usual barriers: In that moment she was completely undefended.
Without means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- exposedOut in open
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
unshielded · susceptible · at-risk · endangered · threatened · imperiled · assailable · precarious
Lacking military defenses
Having no visible identification
- uncoveredMade visible or known
- openNot closed
- unblockedMade passable again
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
free · wide-open · breakaway · one-on-one · clear · uncontested · unmarshalled
Lacking official advocacy
- lawyerlessHaving no attorney
- unansweredLacking any response
- defaultPreset standard option
- unchallengedFacing no opposition
defenseless
Without means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- exposedOut in open
unguarded · unshielded · susceptible · at-risk · endangered · threatened · imperiled · assailable · precarious · insecure
unfortified
Lacking military defenses
unmanned · open · borderless
unmarked
Having no visible identification
unguarded · free · wide-open · breakaway · one-on-one · clear · uncontested · unmarshalled
unrepresented
Lacking official advocacy
- lawyerlessHaving no attorney
- unansweredLacking any response
- defaultPreset standard option
- Security Statussafe, secure, secured, unsafe, insecure
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- unarmedweaponless, bare hands, empty hands, fists, unarmed combat
undefendedfortified
Made more resistant
armed · garrisoned · entrenched · defensible · barricaded
undefendedimpregnable
Impossible to capture
invulnerable · unassailable · impenetrable · unconquerable · invincible
defend, defense, defender, defended, defending, defensive, defendant, defenders, defensible