untried

1. 1.

   not tried or tested by experience

   “unseasoned artillery volunteers”

   “still untested in battle”

   “an illustrator untried in mural painting”

   “a young hand at plowing”

   Synonymsunseasoneduntestedyoung

   Similarinexperienced
2. 2.

   not yet proved or subjected to testing

   “an untested drug”

   “untested theory”

   “an untried procedure”

   Synonymsuntested

   Similarnew

Other forms of untried

comparative

untrieder·

superlative

untriedest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about untried

What does untried mean?

untried means "not tried or tested by experience". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untried?

untried has 2 syllables: un-tried. The stress falls on "tried". In IPA it is /ənˈtɹaɪd/.

What is another word for untried?

Close synonyms include unseasoned, untested, young, untested. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is untried a common word?

untried is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with untried?

1 word rhymes with untried. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.