🚨 Not captured 💻 Not handled

uncaught

1 4.9

Not found or identified despite many attempts

adjective
/ʌnˈkɔt/

: no capturado

So we successfully make our way to this spot, uncaught.

Examples

The monkey gave the forces of human society a good run for their money, remaining uncaught for two years.

Blog text (30)
As long as he is uncaught, my money's not safe!

Robin Hood (2018)
Any person can cover their Internet tracks to a greater or lesser extent, which is part of the reason why piracy cases are so difficult to prove, and why so many hackers go uncaught.

Blog text (22)
The fishermen have to choose whether to swallow the loss and try to fish more to make it up, or to strike—which means sitting unpaid while schools of fish swim by, uncaught.

Academic text (2007)
The fugitive remained uncaught despite the extensive manhunt organized by the police.
Many hackers go uncaught for years due to their sophisticated methods of covering their tracks.
The escaped lion was uncaught for weeks, roaming freely in the nearby woods.

Antonyms

to catch

∞ 1.0

To take hold of a moving person or thing to stop it

How Caught

noticed

7 1.0

uncaught

1 4.9

unnoticed

63 2.5

Surface Forms

uncaught positive

Morphology

uncaught = caught (transparent) = un + catch

Formed by productive negation un- + caught (captured); the meaning 'not captured' follows standard rules.

Etymology

Uncaught comes from the negative un- meaning 'not' and caught from catch, which means 'to grab' or 'take'. So uncaught literally means 'not grabbed' or 'not captured', which fits how we use it for a bird, a person, or a mistake that was not caught.