What part of speech is unmanned?

Unmanned can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. unmanned is a verb, past participle of unman (infinitive).
  • 2. unmanned is a verb, past simple of unman (infinitive).
  • 3. unmanned is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more unmanned
    most unmanned
  • Positive: unmanned 
  • Comparative: more unmanned
  • Superlative: most unmanned

What does unmanned mean?

Definitions

Adjective

unmanned - lacking a crew; "an unmanned satellite to Mars"

Verb

unman - cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"

Examples of unmanned

#   Sentence  
1. adj. An unmanned satellite to Mars.
2. adj. I have never considered this a real problem as I travel without kids and can fend for myself, but when I had to listen to a (non-violent) domestic fight that lasted from 1 AM to 5 AM during my last stay and I found out that the front desk was unmanned during night hours, my choice was to either waste tax payers money by calling for a yet another police dispatch to this hotel, or just get over it.
3. adj. Following the docking failure of an unmanned Russian freighter to the International Space Station, its partners are considering a temporary mothballing of the station.
4. adj. On May 14, 1973, a two-staged Saturn V rocket propelled the 90 metric ton unmanned Skylab space station into an orbit above Earth.
5. adj. India's ambitious mission to land an unmanned probe on the moon suffered a setback when its space agency lost contact with the landing craft minutes before it was to make a critical touchdown on the lunar surface.
6. adj. The International Space Station received several tons of supplies this week from an unmanned craft.
7. adj. The former Soviet Union used unmanned probes to take 301 grams of moon soil samples between 1970 and 1976.
Sentence  
adj.
An unmanned satellite to Mars.
I have never considered this a real problem as I travel without kids and can fend for myself, but when I had to listen to a (non-violent) domestic fight that lasted from 1 AM to 5 AM during my last stay and I found out that the front desk was unmanned during night hours, my choice was to either waste tax payers money by calling for a yet another police dispatch to this hotel, or just get over it.
Following the docking failure of an unmanned Russian freighter to the International Space Station, its partners are considering a temporary mothballing of the station.
On May 14, 1973, a two-staged Saturn V rocket propelled the 90 metric ton unmanned Skylab space station into an orbit above Earth.
India's ambitious mission to land an unmanned probe on the moon suffered a setback when its space agency lost contact with the landing craft minutes before it was to make a critical touchdown on the lunar surface.
The International Space Station received several tons of supplies this week from an unmanned craft.
The former Soviet Union used unmanned probes to take 301 grams of moon soil samples between 1970 and 1976.

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