untraveled

[ uhn-trav-uhld ]

adjective

1. not having traveled, travel, especially to distant places; not having gained experience by travel.
2. not traveled travel through or over; not frequented by travelers:

   an untraveled country lane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of untraveled¹

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ¹ + traveled

Example Sentences

Faced with mounting problems of inequality, diminishing resources, and a looming climate calamity, we must learn to recognize the flaws in such linear storytelling, and to imagine the future along as-yet-untraveled pathways of change.

From MIT Technology Review

Perhaps it was a sign that this section of the woods was untraveled, or maybe nobody had ever thought to pluck it from its habitat.

From Eater

Along the combined streams ran a road—a dirt road originally, now long untraveled, muddy and bad, but still a road.

From Project Gutenberg

The younger and more untraveled portion of the community thought of them with a certain amount of awe and fear.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a serious, sincere, untraveled provincial, possessing unusual gifts of oratory.

From Project Gutenberg

What strange adventures await us in those yet untraveled regions toward which we speed?

From Project Gutenberg

They were within sight of the endless untraveled land that reached, unbroken by civilization, to the far-distant Arctic.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• little-known
• obscure
• uncharted
• undetected
• unexplored
• unfamiliar
• unheard-of