unhandled

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ handled.

Adjective

unhandled (not comparable)

1. Not having been handled.
2. (figurative) Untrained, untame and beyond handling.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] do but note a wild and wanton herd,
     Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
     Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
     Which is the hot condition of their blood; […]

3. Without a handle; handleless.
   • 1986, Norma Johnston, The Watcher in the Mist, page 170:

     Some light came dimly through cracks around that connecting, unhandled door, and through the roof.

4. (programming) Not having an associated handler routine.

   an unhandled event; an unhandled exception