Meanings
- not comparableNot treated.
The thrill of eventually finding a job is quickly offset by her untreated depression.
2019 August 16, Monalesia Earle, Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives, McFarland, →ISBN, page 323 more examples
The volume of the flame given out by the untreated wood was estimated at three times that given out by the best treated wood.
1905, Environmental Control & Safety Management, page 365This short list represents but a few items of an extensive and open-ended list of untreated Indian English lexis.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302For instance, MICP-enabled [microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation] bacterial mortar repaired cracks 3.5 times faster than untreated samples, significantly improving strength under high loads.
2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot given medical care or treatment
adjective(of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye
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-
- Englishtreated
- Englishuntreated
Translations
Czech neléčený
- neléčenýnot treated
Danish ubehandlet
- ubehandletnot treated
Dutch onbehandeld
- onbehandeldnot treated
Finnish hoitamaton
- hoitamatonnot treated
French non traité
- non traiténot treated
Italian non trattato
- non trattatonot treated
Norwegian Bokmål ubehandlet
- ubehandletnot treated
Polish nieleczony, nieoczyszczony
- nieleczonynot treated
- nieoczyszczonynot treated
- nieutwardzonynot treated
Portuguese não tratado
- não tratadonot treated
Spanish non tratado
- non tratadonot treated
Cite this entry
untreated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untreated
“untreated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untreated. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untreated,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untreated.
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