unwired

American  

[uhn-wahyuhrd] / ʌnˈwaɪərd /

adjective

1. not wired, wire, especially not connected by power lines, cables, or wires to receive electricity or cable television.

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Etymology

Origin of unwired

un- ¹ + wired

Example Sentences

He was later a play-by-play announcer and sideline reporter covering college football and basketball games for an unwired radio network before getting hired to be the voice of Pepperdine women’s basketball for two seasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

“But at the end of our military services we were not unwired from war. We were not rewired for society.”

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2017

Google is spending millions of dollars on satellites, high-altitude balloons and drones to extend internet access to an estimated 4.5 billion unwired people around the world.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2015

There’s profit to be made among the roughly two-thirds of humanity that remain unwired, of course, but its pursuit seems beatified by the messianic pursuit of one digital family of man.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2015

The gates of Heaven were open quite, Unguarded and unwired.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis