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unprospected

unprospected adjective: not having been prospected.

Adjective

unprospected (not comparable)

  1. Not having been prospected.
    • In February, for example, the Interior Department awarded Royal Dutch Shell the right to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern shore of Alaska, a heretofore unprospected patch of marine habitat and prime walrus fishing ground.2008 May 20, Natalie Angier, “Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On”, in New York Times

Origin of unprospected

From un- + prospected.

Questions about unprospected

What does unprospected mean?
Unprospected means not having been prospected.
What part of speech is unprospected?
Unprospected is an adjective.

Words near unprospected in the dictionary

  1. unproselytes
  2. unproselyting
  3. unproselytised
  4. unproselytized
  5. unprosodic
  6. unprospected
  7. unprospective
  8. unprospered
  9. unprosperity
  10. unprosperous
  11. unprosperously

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