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untranslated

untranslated adjective: not translated; still in the original language.

Adjective

untranslated (not comparable)

  1. Not translated; still in the original language.
    • The forms can be bizarrely funny when blown up to fill a canvas, as in "Supergastrico Compensado" (the artist prefers that his often punning titles remain untranslated), whose eroticized digestive systems have an appealing decorative flair.1993 January 1, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times
    • They talked through complicated idioms, untranslated figures of speech and, most difficult, the difference between pronouns, a nonissue in English: When should characters who are close but still colleagues address each another as the informal “tu” or the formal “vous”?2023 December 20, Joshua Barone, “When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language”, in The New York Times
  2. Not converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein.

untranslated meaning in Tamil

untranslated in Tamil

மொழிபெயர்க்கப்படாத, நிலைமாற்றப்படாத

Origin of untranslated

From un- + translated.

Questions about untranslated

What does untranslated mean?
Untranslated means not translated; still in the original language.
What is untranslated in Tamil?
Untranslated in Tamil is மொழிபெயர்க்கப்படாத, நிலைமாற்றப்படாத. See Untranslated meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is untranslated?
Untranslated is an adjective.

Words near untranslated in the dictionary

  1. untranslatableness
  2. untranslatables
  3. untranslatably
  4. untranslateable
  5. untranslateableness
  6. untranslated
  7. untranslational
  8. untransliteratable
  9. untransliterated
  10. untranslocatable
  11. untranslocated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untranslated (page history and authors); untranslated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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