unmapped
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmæpt/
- They set out to chart the unmapped regions of the forest, hoping to reveal hidden trails.
- unmapped territory
- unmapped landscape
- unmapped trail
Examples
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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.
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And at some point if this trajectory carries on, they will meet somewhere in this unmapped space in the middle.
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Michelle was the first person I engaged in that unmapped territory.
Fiction book (2002) -
It is largely unmapped country.
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We're looking for tunnels, bunkers, unmapped trails, whatever.
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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
A place not yet explored or mapped
An area not measured or mapped, often land
Not shown on a map and not explored
How Mapped
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.