UNDISTURBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undisturbed mean? 

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

1. untroubled by interference or disturbance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDISTURBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Untroubled by interference or disturbance

Context example:

he could pursue his studies undisturbed

Similar:

untroubled (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress)

 Context examples 

They cut the Apple of Life in two and ate it together; and then her heart became full of love for him, and they lived in undisturbed happiness to a great age.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

No, sir, don't caress me now—let me talk undisturbed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We had arrived before the doctor or the police, so that everything was absolutely undisturbed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The surgeon gave him a composing draught and ordered us to leave him undisturbed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had never thought it possible that we three could be together undisturbed, once more; and I felt, for the time, as if the old days were come back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Down went the black legs and up came the gray head, as the preceptor said, with undisturbed dignity, Good evening, Mr. Bhaer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The survey exceeded all expectations and imaged the depression in stunning detail: a distinctly circular rim, central uplift, disturbed and undisturbed ice layering, and basal debris.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

Henry was alone in it; and his immediate hope of her having been undisturbed by the tempest, with an arch reference to the character of the building they inhabited, was rather distressing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A glimpse, as she passed through the hall, of the two ladies walking up from the Parsonage made no change in her wish of retreat, and she worked and meditated in the East room, undisturbed, for a quarter of an hour, when a gentle tap at the door was followed by the entrance of Miss Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This study shows that, despite a common perception that ecological systems are resilient, they can be so slow to rebound that they're unlikely to return to the same undisturbed state, says Francisco Moore, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)