uncharted


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un·chart·ed

 (ŭn-chär′tĭd)
adj.
1. Not charted or recorded on a map or plan: uncharted waterways; the uncharted desert.
2. Unknown: The nation's geopolitical strategy is yet uncharted.
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uncharted

(ʌnˈtʃɑːtɪd)
adj
(Physical Geography) (of a physical or nonphysical region or area) not yet mapped, surveyed, or investigated: uncharted waters; the uncharted depths of the mind.
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un•chart•ed

(ʌnˈtʃɑr tɪd)

adj.
not shown or located on a map; unexplored.
[1840–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.uncharted - (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigateduncharted - (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated; "uncharted seas"
unknown - not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"
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uncharted

adjective unexplored, unknown, undiscovered, strange, virgin, unfamiliar, unplumbed, not mapped a largely uncharted area of medical science
Usage: Unchartered is sometimes mistakenly used where uncharted is meant: We did not want to pioneer in completely uncharted (not unchartered) territory.
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Translations

uncharted

[ˈʌnˈtʃɑːtɪd] ADJinexplorado, desconocido
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uncharted

[ˌʌnˈtʃɑːrtɪd] adj
(= unexplored) [area, interior] → inexploré(e)
(= not marked on a map) [island] → non répertorié(e)
(fig) (= unfamiliar) uncharted territory, uncharted waters → terrain m inconnu
to be in uncharted territory → être en terrain inconnu
to find o.s in uncharted territory → se retrouver en terrain inconnu
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uncharted

adj (= not explored)unerforscht, unergründet; (= not on map)nicht verzeichnet or eingezeichnet; uncharted waters or territory (fig)unbekanntes Terrain; to enter uncharted waters or territory (fig)sich in unbekanntes Terrain begeben
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uncharted

[ʌnˈtʃɑːtɪd] adjinesplorato/a
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References in classic literature ?
Certainly I do not remember observing any sign of faltering in the set expression of his wasted face, no hint of the nervous anxiety of a young commander about to make land on an uncharted shore.
There was no one to check me up on the working out of my observations, nor with whom I could advise in the ticklish darkness among uncharted reefs and shoals.
That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland's familiar features; and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
At any rate, he decided, it would be preferable to perish on the way than to remain indefinitely upon this evidently uncharted island to which no ships might ever be expected to come.
Four had perished by mischance in the bleak, uncharted vastness.
Captain Josiah Crawford's black schooner sailing down the channel, laden with potatoes for Bluenose ports, was a spectral ship bound for a far uncharted land, ever receding, never to be reached.
Not by reasoning, not by the five senses alone, but by other and remoter and uncharted senses, came the feeling to White Fang that the man was ominous with evil, pregnant with hurtfulness, and therefore a thing bad, and wisely to be hated.
"You are aware--or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware--that the country round some parts of the Amazon is still only partially explored, and that a great number of tributaries, some of them entirely uncharted, run into the main river.
I believe, sir, that we are looking upon the coast of Caprona, uncharted and forgotten for two hundred years."
The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true.
He looked thoughtfully at the chart as if surveying chances and distances from a lofty height--and follow- ing with his eyes his own figure wandering on the blank land of Cochin-China, and then passing off that piece of paper clean out of sight into uncharted regions.
THE BOSS of the Sight Care Group has said that this recession has put the profession in "uncharted territory", and warned against complacency as claims of economic recovery take hold.