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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untried
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an untried strategy
▪ At the time, Richards was an unknown, untried movie director.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new company, largely composed of untried broadcasters, was bound to make a few mistakes.
▪ A presumption exists in favour of any settled scheme of government against any untried project.
▪ Instead of untried young men, we were at last to have a pro, and moreover, one with an excellent voice.
▪ Later on a story was told of his early years as a young and untried king.
▪ The fragmented production environment provided fewer opportunities for untried directors.
▪ The grave social and political crises that they all face will prove a severe test for their new, untried assemblies.
▪ The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research, but here is shown to be most valuable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
untried

1510s, "not proven or tested," from un- (1) "not" + tried.

Wiktionary
untried

a. Not yet tried or tested; unknown.

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

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

Usage examples of "untried".

All week long SS bigwigs have been stomping through the puddles in the ice-cold raw cement structure, down in the enormous underground chambers and up above at the untried furnaces, their impatient brusque comments echoing to the splash and thump of boots.

The chief of the Tramps had a wonderful calculating eye in the observation of distances and the nature of the land, as he proved by his discovery of untried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers.

Hamhanded Trembler to concoct some addle-pated scheme built on untried magic!

The fuse mechanism was only in an untried experimental state, and tests showed that the retaining spring on a trembler switch is far too weak.

He could not show so much love for His creatures, by leaving them unchastened, untried, undisciplined.

This sumptuous creature, this Eve just within the gate of an untried Paradise, untutored in the ways of the world, but on tiptoe to reach the fruit of the tree of knowledge,--alive to the moist vitality of that warm atmosphere palpitating with voices and music, as the flower of some dioecious plant which has grown in a lone corner and suddenly unfolding its corolla on some hot-breathing June evening, feels that the air is perfumed with strange odors and loaded with golden dust wafted from those other blossoms with which its double life is shared,--this almost over-womanized woman might well have bewitched him, but that he had a vague sense of a counter-charm.

He looked fresh and new and untried, like someone who had never hugged someone and found her wearing a gun.

Especially when dealing with something as unknown, as untried, as his retrocognitive influence.

He made the sixty-mile journey from Braintree to Worcester by horseback in a single day and, though untried and untrained as a teacher, immediately assumed his new role in a one-room schoolhouse at the center of town.

Washington after discussions like this, she had increased admiration for the men all down the line who made aviation possible: the big companies that made the planes, the Senate committees that paid for them, the generals and admirals who fought to get the right ones, the gallant young men who flew them, and then that special breed of quiet supermen who drank beer in the kitchen on Saturday night and tested the untried planes on Monday morning.

The civil libertarians now had their own arcane, untried legal weaponry to launch into action -- the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, 18 US Code, Section 2701 et seq.

Early adopters to the last, they don't pop telomere tabs and mitochondrial mixers like the rest of us -- no, they have to try out untried biotech, so they tend to look a bit patchy: gray skins-and-smooth beards sort of thing.

Just now the apeling was developing those arboreal tendencies which were to stand him in such good stead during the years of his youth, when rapid flight into the upper terraces was of far more importance and value than his undeveloped muscles and untried fighting fangs.

The last time he'd been so anxious to have a female that he'd taken her with his braies about his boots he'd been an untried boy, not an experienced man.

Lytol had worked too hard and long to make Ruatha prosper to take second place to the bumblings of an untried youth.