unexploited

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adjective

Not exploited.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveunexploited (comparative more unexploited, superlative most unexploited)

comparative more unexploited · superlative most unexploited

  1. Not exploited.

    We've entered orbit around an unexploited gas giant and are using it as a shield. All feasible orbital solutions for leaving this system are blockaded.…

    2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 19, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 188

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot developed, improved, exploited or used

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishexploited
  9. Englishunexploited

From un- + exploited.

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APA

unexploited. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexploited

MLA

“unexploited.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexploited. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unexploited,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexploited.

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