unexploited
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪkˈsplɔɪtɪd/
:
no explotado
- However, these determinations were from unexploited areas that likely lack any significant mineralization.
- previously unexploited
- unexploited populations
- remain unexploited
Examples
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A quarter of all of the unexploited oil and gas reserves in the world are located in the Arctic.
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Flight came much later, and because of it, birds came to occupy a host of previously unexploited niches in virtually every region of the world.
Academic text (1992) -
If we have no knowledge of the size of the original, unexploited stock, how can we set appropriate management goals?
Academic text (2009) -
CPFVs could no longer find locations with unexploited populations of large fish.
Academic text (1998) -
However, in the quest to increase water supplies, these yet unexploited places will probably be incorporated into the hydrohub.
Academic text (2016) -
I insist that there is no contradiction of aims here, but a huge, and so far unexploited, series of intellectual opportunities.
Academic text (1999) -
Local resources were successively depleted, but there was always an unexploited frontier to which people could turn.
Academic text (1995) -
To them, the entire galaxy was an open frontier, filled with a plethora of unexploited and useful worlds.
Fiction book (1999) -
Meanwhile, alternative seafood products such as squid, tuna, cuttlefish, and various bottom fish remain almost totally unexploited by the Indian fishing industry.
Academic text (1990) -
The Great Plains are the most unexploited and fertile ground for wind power.
Synonyms
21
4.9
Not yet found or studied
20
4.4
Not yet used or developed, especially natural resources and skills
11
4.1
Land not yet used or built on
2
6.5
Land or property left in its natural state and not developed
1
5.6
Not used and left empty
Left unused and idle, like time, land, or machines
Not studied enough to be well understood and may give new information
Antonyms
How Exploited
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unexploited is made of un- meaning 'not' and exploit meaning 'to use or take advantage of'. So unexploited describes something, like land or potential, that has 'not' been used or developed.