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unmapped

unmapped

2 6.6
An area not yet shown on a map
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈmæpt/
translation icon : no cartografiado
  • They set out to chart the unmapped regions of the forest, hoping to reveal hidden trails.
  • unmapped territory
  • unmapped landscape
  • unmapped trail

Examples

  • Their journey will take them across the lawless plains, to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feuds, duels, and massacres, and into unmapped mountains for a reckoning with ancient enemies.

    Blog text (29)
  • They were hungry to explore the unmapped landscape of nonviolence, pacifism, and peaceful conflict resolution.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Sir, it is possible that a natural unmapped opening exists.

  • And at some point if this trajectory carries on, they will meet somewhere in this unmapped space in the middle.

  • Michelle was the first person I engaged in that unmapped territory.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • It is largely unmapped country.

  • We're looking for tunnels, bunkers, unmapped trails, whatever.

  • This shared border, as borders tend to be, was an unmapped and most uncertain line, shifting to and fro in accordance with time, custom, and alliance.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Armed with limited supplies and even more limited wits, Sir Ilyber Kitcher had decided to traverse the unmapped land of Chult from east to west, starting in a small port he'd named after his rich Uncle Castigliar.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Woody carried the anachronistic title of Deputy U.S. Surveyor the same way he wore his bushy white mustache and hand-tooled cowboy boots, as if it actually meant something to be in charge of surveying one of the few states left with unmapped terrain.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

uncharted
vsunmapped
42 6.5

A place not yet explored or mapped

is about lacking map representation rather than stressing exploration
unsurveyed
vsunmapped
7.0

An area not measured or mapped, often land

focuses on missing map depiction rather than measurement detail
chartless
vsunmapped
9.2

Not shown on a map and not explored

refers more to absence on maps than to being unexplored

How Mapped

chartless
9.2
unmapped
2 6.6

Surface Forms

unmapped positive

Morphology

unmapped = mapped + map (transparent) = un + map + ed

The meaning is clearly derived from 'mapped' with the prefix 'un-' indicating the negation.

Etymology

The word unmapped is built from un- meaning 'not' and map meaning 'to draw or show a place'. So unmapped describes an area that has not been put on a map or formally surveyed, meaning it is not shown or recorded.