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untravelled

British  
/ ʌnˈtrævəld /

adjective

  1. (of persons) not having travelled widely; narrow or provincial

  2. (of a road) never travelled over

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

It is difficult for the imagination even to grasp the peculiar task that lay before the early settlers of this vast, heavily-timbered, unbroken, unopened, untravelled country.

From The Clan Fraser in Canada Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Fraser, Alexander

Besides all this, the untravelled Englishman—and such was Glencore when he married—never can be brought to understand the harmless levities of foreign life.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

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