untried
Americanadjective
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not tried; not attempted, proved, or tested.
Insurance may not cover the cost if cheaper treatments exist or newer treatments are untried and unproven.
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lacking the knowledge, skill, or wisdom gained from experience; inexperienced.
No contender is going to use an untried rookie in the last month of a playoff race when they have players with much more experience available.
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not yet tried at law.
He was imprisoned—uncharged and untried—solely for political reasons.
adjective
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not tried, attempted, or proved; untested
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not tried by a judge or court
Etymology
Origin of untried
Example Sentences
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Funston, granted parole earlier this month, was set to be released on Thursday from state prison — but was rearrested that same day on new charges from a decades-old, untried case.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
"Imposing an untried, untested layer of complexity and cost in the form of any new division of the Crown Court on our desperately underfunded system with its crumbling infrastructure is counter intuitive," she said.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
Although well-travelled, he is largely untried on foreign policy.
From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2023
The $7.5 million comes from the infrastructure law Congress passed in 2021 and is going to scientists who will test untried methods of bat protection.
From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023
Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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