protectionless

English

Etymology

protection +‎ -less. Attested since the 19th century.

Adjective

protectionless (not comparable)

1. Without protection.
   • 1881, Mary Cowden Clarke, Honey from the Weed: Verses, page 103:

     All guardless, innocent, protectionless, As you were then, how could I be but thus, If I would not betray my charge, my trust?

Synonyms

• improtected, unprotected