unhandled

[ uhn-han-dld ]

adjective

1. not handled; handle; not touched.
2. (of animals) untamed; unbroken; untrained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhandled¹

First recorded in 1550–60; un- ¹ + handled

Example Sentences

I would to God that I, too, possessed the tender irritableness of unhandled sensibility.

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The tea-cups, saucered and lidded, but unhandled, stood in a row before the polished brass hot-water kettle.

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It will take a power that some of us have not known to let that glass go untouched, and that quieting drug untasted and unhandled.

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It seems strange that the great store of treasure which he opened to us should have been unhandled and unknown so long.

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