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English
Etymology
From un- + tested.
Adjective
untested (not comparable)
- Not previously tested.
- Synonym: untried (sometimes synonymous)
- Antonyms: tested, tried and tested, tried and true; battle-tested
- Coordinate terms: experimental; unproven
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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