untested

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ tested.

Adjective

untested (not comparable)

1. Not previously tested.

   Synonym: untried (sometimes synonymous)

   Antonyms: tested, tried and tested, tried and true; battle-tested

   Coordinate terms: experimental; unproven

   • 2012, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research, page 197:

     If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 306:

     The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.

Translations

not previously tested

Czech: netestovaný, neotestovaný Danish: utestet Greek: Ancient: ἀδοκίμαστος (adokímastos) Latin: inexpertus Norwegian: Bokmål: utestet