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unpenetrated

unpenetrated adjective: not penetrated.

Adjective

unpenetrated (not comparable)

  1. Not penetrated.
    • Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle with innumerable wolves, and did not entirely forbear strong liquor, rioting, and even theft; whom, notwithstanding, the peaceful Sower will follow, and, as he cuts the boundless harvest, bless."1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
    • Both in Central America and in Orinoco there yet are many unpenetrated forests which are almost entirely composed of wild cacao-trees.1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

Origin of unpenetrated

From un- + penetrated.

Questions about unpenetrated

What does unpenetrated mean?
Unpenetrated means not penetrated.
What part of speech is unpenetrated?
Unpenetrated is an adjective.

Words near unpenetrated in the dictionary

  1. unpenalized
  2. unpenanced
  3. unpenciled
  4. unpencilled
  5. unpenetrable
  6. unpenetrated
  7. unpenetrating
  8. unpenetrative
  9. unpenguinlike
  10. unpenised
  11. unpenitent

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