adjective · rare

unbacked

unbacked · more unbacked · most unbacked

Having no backHaving no back.

Meaning

5 senses

(not comparable)Having no back.
an unbacked bench
Not supported or backed up (by someone or something).
Having no (or few) backers.
an unbacked racehorse
a largely unbacked fundraising project
(of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.
(not comparable, obsolete)Of an animal: never having been ridden or not accustomed to being ridden; not (currently) being ridden.
1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 237, […] having visited his charger which was to be led unbacked to the field, he mounted a black palfrey;