UNEXPLORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unexplored mean? 

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

1. not yet discovered

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEXPLORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not yet discovered

Synonyms:

undiscovered; unexplored

Context example:

undiscovered islands

Similar:

unknown (not known)

 Context examples 

Until this study, insect-bite protection was an unexplored function of graphene-based materials.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

This work reveals the unexplored and long-term impacts some nanoparticles have on the living organisms around us.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"It's a pristine environment, the Tibetan people are kind, and in paleontological terms," he says, "it's relatively unexplored."

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

However, at the start of the mission this instrument could not peer farther up into the northern stratosphere, where temperatures were too cold for reliable CIRS infrared observations, leaving these higher-altitude regions relatively unexplored for many years.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

The place in the middle alone remained now unexplored; and though she had never from the first had the smallest idea of finding anything in any part of the cabinet, and was not in the least disappointed at her ill success thus far, it would be foolish not to examine it thoroughly while she was about it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This would render the investigators competitive for funding through the research project grant (R01) and/or First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) (R29) award mechanisms, thus potentially leading to the establishment of new research programs in areas that might have previously remained unexplored.

(Exploratory/Developmental Grant for Diagnostic Cancer Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

According to Brent C. Christner, the paper's lead author and a researcher with the NSF-funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, Hidden beneath a half-mile of ice in Antarctica is an unexplored part of our biosphere.

(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)