English Dictionary

UNTRODDEN

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does untrodden mean? 

UNTRODDEN (adjective)
  The adjective UNTRODDEN has 1 sense:

1. lacking pathwaysplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNTRODDEN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking pathways

Synonyms:

pathless; roadless; trackless; untracked; untrod; untrodden

Context example:

roadless areas

Similar:

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)


 Context examples 


The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Forewarned is forearmed." (English proverb)

"All dreams spin out from the same web." (Native American proverb, Hopi)

"Wherever there's bread, stay there." (Armenian proverb)

"You will get furthest with honesty." (Czech proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact