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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undisturbed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
relatively
▪ Equally, Britain has had centuries of relatively undisturbed independence and constitutional continuity, so a certain confidence comes as no surprise.
▪ There are very few roads crossing the moor, and the wildlife remains relatively undisturbed.
▪ Some women are relatively undisturbed by their monthly bleed.
▪ Prefers relatively undisturbed soil at the base and should be planted in full sun.
▪ This pattern continued relatively undisturbed until 1959, when a short period of major upheaval began.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The tomb was left undisturbed for over 800 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds.
▪ But they did not venture into the hinterland, leaving the rebels there undisturbed.
▪ Near the upper west-facing slopes, I was surprised to find woods that seemed ancient and undisturbed.
▪ So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.
▪ Studies have shown that bighorns harassed by people feed less and are warier than sheep in undisturbed areas.
▪ The Museum's policy is that it is far better to leave such time-capsules undisturbed.
▪ They prefer shallow, undisturbed water.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undisturbed

c.1600, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of disturb (v.).

Wiktionary
undisturbed

a. 1 not disturbed or agitated 2 calm

WordNet
undisturbed

  1. adj. untroubled by interference or disturbance; "food supplies were allowed through unmolested"; "he could pursue his studies undisturbed" [syn: unmolested]

  2. peaceful without disturbance; "the undisturbed tenor of their life"

Usage examples of "undisturbed".

The avalanche of gold that Blanco Ferndndez had brought forth from a nearby vault lay undisturbed where it had spilled.

In one corner of the room Blotto, undisturbed by the arrival of his master, was snoring volubly, a thing he did quite well.

It was intended that the voters for counties at large should remain undisturbed, and those who voted for the county of the city would also be allowed to continue that vote, but those who by the former bill were not to be allowed to vote for either place would now be allowed to vote for the county in which the city or borough happened to be situated.

There was a transient gleam of distrust in the hasty glance of the Bravo, as he shot a look at the undisturbed eye of the innocent being who put this question.

The merman must be left undisturbed in his mental quest for the runners.

There were three times the number of pens than there were dragons, plenty of empty pens where an egg could incubate in the hot sands undisturbed.

They concluded that the flints from the base of the Red Crag near Ipswich were in undisturbed strata, at least Pliocene in age.

I have personally extracted from the undisturbed strata at Puy de Boudieu many such unquestionable artifacts.

In cases where pencil writing has been removed with a soft rubber or fresh bread, the parts thus erased will assume, when subjected to iodine fumes, a brown color trending towards violet and much darker than the undisturbed portions of the paper.

Therefore he was surprised at nothing and feared nothing and so he walked through the strange night as undisturbed and unapprehensive as the farmer to the cow lot in the darkness before the dawn.

Fifty feet within a mine, and in the undisturbed rock which forms its roof, the doctor found fragments of dicotyledonous trees with the bark on, undecomposed, uncharred, and fibrous.

Copernicus the leisure to pursue his studies in quiet, undiverted, undisturbed.

Plenty of dry food remained in the pantry, undisturbed and unfouled by weevils.

Doubtless by this time Adrian did see it all, and was mentally cursing at Folly, and reckoning the immediate consequences, but he looked uninstructed, his peculiar dimple-smile was undisturbed, his comfortable full-bodied posture was the same.

Beyond it, a curving path led away between straggly bare-branched bushes, the dim light showing that in this forlorn public garden the snow lay greyly unmelted, covering everything thinly, like years of undisturbed dust.