unexplored
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪkˈsplɔrd/
- I decided that the woods, still unexplored, might be my salvation.
- largely unexplored
- remain unexplored
- relatively unexplored
And it's not like there are big corners that are unexplored.
- And it's not like there are big corners that are unexplored.
- No, nothing was left unexplored or charted or exploded.
- Yeah, that the rich, deep, unexplored complexity that's all of us weird apes.
- It is a maze of shells, pieces of black, unexploded and unexplored.
Examples
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Which is why it's one of the last, great unexplored frontiers on earth
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The mission's in deep, unexplored waters.
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But one large area which has been left unexplored is the human being itself.
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Tried to get me to go west into unexplored country.
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The largest unexplored cave system in the world.
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The idea of going to a place that was relatively unexplored excited both Meggers and Evans.
Academic text (2003) -
In today's complex music software packages, many features can remain unexplored and unused.
Academic text (2013) -
Austin spent much of her life uncovering what she called "the unexplored treasure of women's experience" in the West.
Fiction book (1996) -
The final chapter, translated here, comprises the author's examination of photography's previously "unexplored potential," namely, "photo-mechanics."
Academic text (2000) -
There are over 160,930 square miles of unexplored rainforest in South America.
Synonyms
A place not yet explored or mapped
Not yet found or known by people
Not checked or thought about carefully
An area not yet shown on a map
Not looked into to find the cause or facts
Something that no one has seen before
Not looked through or checked for something
Not carefully studied and without good proof
Too deep to be measured or explored
Too deep or mysterious to understand
A place where there are no paths or roads and very few people have been
Not yet explored or understood
An area not measured or mapped, often land
Land where people do not walk, often far from towns
How Explored
Surface Forms
Morphology
unexplored = explored (transparent) = un + explore + ed
Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'explored' (past participle/adjective), so its meaning 'not explored' is directly and predictably derived.
Etymology
The word unexplored is made of un- meaning 'not' and explore meaning 'to search or discover', like in explorer. So an unexplored place is one people have not yet searched or studied.