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Adjective
1. not traveled over or through;
"untraveled roads"
"an untraversed region"
The first known use of untraversed was circa 1775
1 Yet there were probably, in so large an extent of country, many wild glens and deep fastnesses hitherto untraversed, and these had to be discovered and explored.
2 They left Cork station on the Diamantina, and kept a north-west course through the untraversed country between that river and the Georgina, or Herbert, as it was then called.
3 Furnishing materials of commerce which have been objects of universal desire since the deluge—gold, gems, ivory, fragrant gums, and spices—it has still remained almost untraversed by the European foot, except along its coast.
4 Meanwhile, the acquisition of Burma and the demarcation of boundaries had opened the way to the extension of geographical surveys in directions hitherto untraversed.
5 She calls the machines her company’s spaceships, allowing her dancers to reach “unknown, untraversed topographies.”
6 But to bring about any part of his projects he must plunge still deeper into the untraversed.
7 I saw nothing of the country yet, and could only dream of unknown beauty in untraversed paths.
8 This it is to be young and for the first time mastering the geography of an unknown and untraversed continent.
9 What was there behind the immense and untraversed belt of forest which extended to the south, to the east, and west?
10 Yet before Ulysses could land there, a squall overtook him; and his galley sank, prow foremost, in that untraversed sea, within sight of a new world.
11 It was a dreadful march to undertake, along a mere track untraversed by any European for years, but my wife liked the idea of it, and it was shorter than the route viâ Nigriting.
12 Full many an irksome mile of bushy dell and rocky hill and forest-crested ridge lay traversed and searched behind them; untraversed and unsearched, lay as many more before them.
13 Wide regions untraversed by the feet of His messengers!
14 Striking north-east, the expedition almost immediately entered a practically untraversed desert of barren sand-dunes, waterless, and both difficult and dangerous to traverse; and their animals drank nothing for the first two days.
15 On the one side was the great arid desert stretching away to Timbuctoo, on the other was a sea untraversed by vessels.
16 Too far the golden moon Had swung upon that bright, that long, untraversed way.
17 Were they isolated here in the untraversed southern seas, cast upon an island unknown to the rest of the world?
18 I began a series of articles in the Association Monthly, called "Twilight Talks," which may perhaps prove to be in a degree what you want, but still there is much land untraversed.
19 Now he imagined himself in the closet, with scarcely room to breathe, and an officer's hand on the latch; now groping along untraversed paths, till, falling into some hole, he awoke from his revery.
20 He was a born explorer, however, and made several excursions into the surrounding untraversed land, finding several geographical features, which still preserve the names he gave them.