untravelled
Britishadjective
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(of persons) not having travelled widely; narrow or provincial
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(of a road) never travelled over
Example Sentences
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Hers was the only car on the road then and she was surprised to see, on such an untravelled byway, another billboard advertising “The Acceptance Journey.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
These are in many cases some fairly callow untravelled youths, like a slightly tougher version of the blokes from The Inbetweeners.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
The railways and the hotels have between them so churned up the people that an untravelled man or woman is a rare animal.
From Time Magazine Archive
In like manner, one might walk through the picture galleries and come away freighted with great names wherewith to awe the untravelled lover of art.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
Such churches, too, as then existed, were mostly built upon a rising ground, and seemed to serve as landmarks in that wild untravelled breadth of muir-moss and forest-land.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
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