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UNTRIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untried mean?
• UNTRIED (adjective)
The adjective UNTRIED has 2 senses:
1. not tried or tested by experience
2. not yet proved or subjected to testing
Familiarity information: UNTRIED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not tried or tested by experience
Synonyms:
unseasoned; untested; untried; young
Context example:
a young hand at plowing
Similar:
inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not yet proved or subjected to testing
Synonyms:
untested; untried
Context example:
an untried procedure
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Context examples
I have an Irish imagination which makes the unknown and the untried more terrible than they are.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sisters set out at a pace, slow as the feebleness of Marianne in an exercise hitherto untried since her illness required;—and they had advanced only so far beyond the house as to admit a full view of the hill, the important hill behind, when pausing with her eyes turned towards it, Marianne calmly said, "There, exactly there,"—pointing with one hand, "on that projecting mound,—there I fell; and there I first saw Willoughby."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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