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UNEXPLORED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not yet discovered
Example:
undiscovered islands
Synonyms:
undiscovered; unexplored
Classified under:
Similar:
unknown (not known)
Context examples:
Similar to Voyager 1 and 2's historic observations, New Horizons also is on a path toward potential discoveries in the Kuiper Belt, which is a disc-shaped region of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune, and other unexplored realms of the outer solar system and beyond.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I am going to unexplored regions, to the land of mist and snow, but I shall kill no albatross; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the Ancient Mariner.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
