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UNTASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untasted mean? 

UNTASTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNTASTED has 1 sense:

1. still fullplay

  Familiarity information: UNTASTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNTASTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Still full

Synonyms:

untasted; untouched

Context example:

an untouched cocktail in her hand

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)


 Context examples 


Even now, he sat with the glass of wine untasted on his knee, and his eyes directed to a corner of the floor.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My dinner went away almost untasted, and I tried to refresh myself with a glass or two of wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Each sister could echo the wish; and Henry Crawford, to whom, in all the riot of his gratifications it was yet an untasted pleasure, was quite alive at the idea.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Nay, I spied nothing,” grumbled Sir Oliver, “for I was hurried down with a clam stuck in my gizzard and an untasted goblet of Cyprus on the board behind me.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untasted, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times, and made these hours worth living, even if they bore no other fruit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was not three months ago since, wild with joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards some ten times a day, with an heart light, gay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I had been too busy to observe, until after she was gone to bed, that she had left her night-mixture, as she always called it, untasted on the chimney-piece.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Utterson’s only answer was to rise and get his hat and greatcoat; but he observed with wonder the greatness of the relief that appeared upon the butler’s face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when he set it down to follow.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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