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- [uhn-trahyd]
- /ʌnˈtraɪd/
- /ˈʌnˈtraɪd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [uhn-trahyd]
- /ʌnˈtraɪd/
Definitions of untried word
- adjective untried not tried; not attempted, proved, or tested. 1
- adjective untried not yet tried at law. 1
- adjective untried not attempted or tested 1
- adjective untried If someone or something is untried, they have not yet experienced certain situations or have not yet been tried out, so you do not know what they will be like. 0
- adjective untried not tried, attempted, or proved; untested 0
- adjective untried not tried by a judge or court 0
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Origin of untried
First appearance:
before 1520 One of the 28% oldest English words
First recorded in 1520-30; un-1 + tried
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Parts of speech for Untried
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
untried popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
untried usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for untried
adj untried
- brand new — entirely new.
- callow — A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.
- causal — If there is a causal relationship between two things, one thing is responsible for causing the other thing.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
adjective untried
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- fledgling — a young bird just fledged.
- girllike — Resembling a girl.
- jellybean — a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
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