untested

Not previously tested.

Adjective

  1. Not previously tested.
    • 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, R. Brian...
    • 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. - 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond...

    Synonyms: untried

    Antonyms: tested tried and tested tried and true battle-tested

    Coordinate Terms: experimental unproven

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English tested English untested From un- + tested.