untested

English

Etymology

un- + tested

Adjective

untested (not comparable)

  1. Not previously tested.
    • 2012, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research, page 197:
      If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.
    • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 306:
      The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.

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