Meanings
- not comparableNot previously tested.
The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 3061 more example
If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.
2012, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research, page 197Synonyms: untried · Antonyms: tested, tried and tested, tried and true, battle-tested
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot previously tested.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot tried or tested by experience
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-
- Englishtested
- Englishuntested
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀδοκίμαστος
- ἀδοκίμαστος (adokímastos)not previously tested
Czech netestovaný, neotestovaný
- netestovanýnot previously tested
- neotestovanýnot previously tested
Danish utestet
- utestetnot previously tested
Latin inexpertus
- inexpertusnot previously tested
Norwegian Bokmål utestet
- utestetnot previously tested
Cite this entry
untested. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untested
“untested.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untested. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untested,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untested.
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