Meanings
- not comparableNot tasted.
[…] yet all his virtues, Not virtuously on his own part beheld, Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss, Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish, Are like to rot untasted.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]2 more examples
It was not three months ago since, wild with joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards some ten times a day, with an heart light, gay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge of it.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XXIX, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLCSleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untasted, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times, and made these hours worth living, even if they bore no other fruit.
1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 27, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishtasted
- Englishuntasted
Translations
Bulgarian неопитан
- неопитан (neopitan)not tasted
Hindi अनचखा
- अनचखा (ancakhā)not tasted
Norwegian usmakt
- usmaktnot tasted
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
untasted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untasted
“untasted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untasted. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untasted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untasted.
Source: untasted on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.