unsurveyed
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɜrveɪd/
- We discovered ancient artifacts in a previously unsurveyed area of the desert.
- unsurveyed area
Examples
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First, Wagner's surveyed garden plots accounted for only one-third of all village gardens, with the other unsurveyed gardens located in close proximity to them.
Academic text (2007) -
A century later, the Fourth Cataract remained largely unsurveyed and unexcavated.
Academic text (2006) -
These data must be treated with caution, since many areas are still unsurveyed and the complete distributions of many species are not yet known.
Academic text (2011) -
These birds had been unmarked and unsurveyed.
Academic text (1993) -
Although we attempted to survey as much of the study area as possible, we cannot go beyond speculation about the potential for habitat and connectivity across unsurveyed areas.
Academic text (2017) -
All of the Mormon land-claim options were located in unsurveyed areas outside clearly defined U.S. legal jurisdiction.
Academic text (1997) -
In September, the council contracted with him to lay out an unsurveyed area of the city commons into one-acre lots and to produce a map of the city.
Academic text (2011) -
However, assumptions regarding the geographical distribution of the stock are based on limited information, and it is generally recognized that the stock extends into unsurveyed areas of the western Bering Sea.
Academic text (1994) -
As the allocation of farms to ex-servicemen gained momentum, the squatters living on Rhodesdale were moved off into unsurveyed areas.
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They are frustrated, too, by delays in the execution of plans, even as they witness the daily destruction of unsurveyed terrain, of sites that may conceal treasures destined to remain forever lost.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
A place not yet explored or mapped
Not yet found or studied
Not checked or thought about carefully
Not looked at or checked when people search for answers
An area not yet shown on a map
Not looked into to find the cause or facts
Not carefully studied and without good proof
Too deep to measure, often about water or caves
Too deep to be measured or explored
Not yet explored or understood
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsurveyed = surveyed (transparent) = un + survey + ed
Formed by negating the participial adjective 'surveyed' with the productive prefix 'un-', so the meaning is directly 'not surveyed'.
Etymology
Unsurveyed is made from un- 'not' and survey 'to look over or measure a place'. So unsurveyed describes land or areas that no one has measured or mapped yet, which is why explorers and scientists can still discover new things there.