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say it: uhn-TRAHYD
untried is an adjective meaning "not tried or tested by experience". It carries 2 recorded senses.
not tried or tested by experience
“unseasoned artillery volunteers”
“still untested in battle”
“an illustrator untried in mural painting”
“a young hand at plowing”
not yet proved or subjected to testing
“an untested drug”
“untested theory”
“an untried procedure”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for untried come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.