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untrodden

untrodden adjective: that has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.

Adjective

untrodden (comparative more untrodden, superlative most untrodden)

  1. That has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.
    • Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342
    • If he could only get away from the holes in the banks, he thought, there would be no more faces. He swung off the path and plunged into the untrodden places of the wood.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
  2. Of a person: undefeated.

Examples of untrodden in a sentence

  • Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
  • Moreover the most becoming place for temples and altars he said to be that which, while being most visible, would be most untrodden; for it is pleasant for those who are undefiled to approach it.1994, Xenophon, translated by Amy L. Bonnette, Memorabilia, page 93:

Forms of untrodden

comparativemore untrodden
superlativemost untrodden

Origin of untrodden

From un- + trodden.

Words formed from untrodden

Questions about untrodden

What does untrodden mean?
Untrodden means that has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.
How do you use untrodden in a sentence?
Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.
What part of speech is untrodden?
Untrodden is an adjective.

Words near untrodden in the dictionary

  1. untrivial
  2. untrivialized
  3. untrivially
  4. untrochaic
  5. untrod
  6. untrodden
  7. untroddenness
  8. untrollable
  9. untrolled
  10. untrophied
  11. untropical

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