untasted

Examples

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• He placed the gourmet meal before him and, overwhelmed, decided to leave it untasted.

• She tried to imagine the persimmons in the fall, bright orange bells on bare branches, promises of untasted sweetness.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He looked carefully at the surface of his coffee and left it on the table, untasted.

  Fiction book (1995)

• There was no ransom to be paid, No song unsung, no wine untasted.

  Les Misérables (2012)

• She wanted to tell him that her supper had gone untasted, and that she too could no longer spread her tablecloth over a coffin.

  Fiction book (1995)

• So, based on my poorly thought-out rambling, the idea is that one's mind can convince one's sense of taste that a previously enjoyable food, or an untasted food, tastes bad regardless of the actual taste.

  Blog text (15)

• I must strengthen myself before those eyes, their held hue and life and light and sight, her slender hands wrapped around the pale green cup, whose contents go untasted, for her musing mood is on her.

  Fiction book (2000)

• When called to the feast, the soldiers mocked Tryon's hospitality, poured the beer onto the ground, and pitched the ox, untasted, into the Cape Fear River.

  Blog text (11)

• Dunwin was too upset about Bernice to do more than stare at his portion, announce that there were mushrooms in it (he hated mushrooms), and dump it back into the pot untasted.

  Fiction book (1993)

• After hours of preparation, she left the beautifully decorated cake untasted at the party.

Synonyms

U

untouched

vsuntasted

8 2.1

Not eaten or drunk and still left as it was

is about whether someone sampled the flavour, not general use or condition

U

uneaten

vsuntasted

5 1.0

Food that no one has eaten yet

focuses on whether someone sampled the flavour, not overall consumption

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Etymology