untried
pronunciation
How to pronounce untried in British English:
UK [ˌʌnˈtraɪd]
How to pronounce untried in American English:
US [ʌnˈtraɪd]
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- Adjective:
- not tried or tested by experience
- not yet proved or subjected to testing
Word Origin
- untried (adj.)
- 1510s, "not proven or tested," from un- (1) "not" + tried.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Inexperienced , immature , or untried .
- 2. The impossible is often the untried .
- 3. The mechanisms for organising the sale or administration of an insolvent audit firm are uncertain and untried .
- 4. But rival technologies have improved . Potential foreign buyers of the company are waiting to see whether aecl 's latest , previously untried design wins a competition this summer to build a new reactor for ontario 's provincial government .
- 5. Yet finding such companies requires painstaking and time-consuming research and often requires betting on untried managers .