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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untested
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ untested leadership
▪ A "flat" tax is still an untested concept.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His proposal effectively would trigger the untested constitutional process for handing over power to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
▪ In the absence of radiocarbon dates these interpretations must remain untested but attractive hypotheses.
▪ Privatization would be an untested leap of faith.
▪ The difficulty is that Reagan was an original, promoting an optimistic untested theory in a recessionary period.
▪ These premises are often unstated and hence untested.
▪ This version is normally only used by the person developing the module, as it may be untested.
▪ We do not yet know if these deductions are correct since they are as yet untested.
Wiktionary
untested

a. Not previously tested.

WordNet
untested

  1. adj. not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting" [syn: unseasoned, untried]

  2. not yet proved or subjected to testing; "an untested drug"; "untested theory"; "an untried procedure" [syn: untried]

Usage examples of "untested".

Its true capability was untested, but he was sure that at the very least it could outperform a mass-produced GM Mobile Suit.

Lord of the Eastern Granges, a mere boy of eighteen, untested in battle and stateship, yet so certain of his own worth.

Iss felt the familiar burn of resentment as he looked over the Lord of the Eastern Granges, a mere boy of eighteen, untested in battle and stateship, yet so certain of his own worth.

They were setting precedents with this incomplete, understocked, experimental, untested supership, and there were no answers yet.

Untested, unstressed internal supports and exterior deflectors ached under the strain, and the strain refused to go away.

Despite the fact that Mink is now a carefully observed person, one of the volunteers manages to slip through the screen of watchfulness and begins a program of more or less unsupervised human experimentation, using a drug that is totally unknown, untested and unapproved, with side effects that could beach a whale.

Pope began to follow with real longing the careers of the original Sacred Seven and the new Nifty Nine, for these were men his own age, men he had flown with, men with whom he had conducted simulated dogfights in untested planes over the silvery waters of the Chesapeake or the barren flats at Edwards.

Loose tongues lose lawsuits, French had warned him, and with such an untested staff it was best to keep them in the dark.

The Barghast gods have been rediscovered, and so represent an ancient horde of untested power and disposition.

We had a malfunction in two of our torpedoes--the newest and more or less untested radio-controlled type-- during the Nato exercises just ended, and Admiral Garvie ordered them all to be removed for inspection when we got back to the Holy Loch.

He struck the boards once, twice, but only Juventus and Onnozel, two of the younger troopers, untested in battle, even looked in his direction.

He'd been prepared to approach the satellite node ringmasters with vague theories and untested strategies.