UNCHARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncharted mean? 

• UNCHARTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHARTED has 1 sense:

1. (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated

  Familiarity information: UNCHARTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated

Synonyms:

chartless; uncharted; unmapped

Context example:

uncharted seas

Similar:

unknown (not known)

 Context examples 

Thousands of previously uncharted mountains rising from the seafloor, called seamounts, have emerged through the map, along with new clues about the formation of the continents.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

Other revelations from the mission include that Jupiter has two previously uncharted radiation zones.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

To explore this uncharted area of gravitational wave science, researchers look to a natural experiment in the sky called a pulsar timing array.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

Not by reasoning, not by the five senses alone, but by other and remoter and uncharted senses, came the feeling to White Fang that the man was ominous with evil, pregnant with hurtfulness, and therefore a thing bad, and wisely to be hated.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that the country round some parts of the Amazon is still only partially explored, and that a great number of tributaries, some of them entirely uncharted, run into the main river.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)