untrodden

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word untrodden. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word untrodden, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say untrodden in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word untrodden you have here. The definition of the word untrodden will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofuntrodden, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ trodden.

Adjective

untrodden (comparative more untrodden, superlative most untrodden)

  1. That has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342:
      Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
      If he could only get away from the holes in the banks, he thought, there would be no more faces. He swung off the path and plunged into the untrodden places of the wood.
    • 1994, Xenophon, translated by Amy L. Bonnette, Memorabilia, page 93:
      Moreover the most becoming place for temples and altars he said to be that which, while being most visible, would be most untrodden; for it is pleasant for those who are undefiled to approach it.
    • 1969, S. Segal, Ecological Notes on Wall Vegetation, published 2013, page 252:
      The upper layer of the soil is, therefore, less solid than in other trampled habitats and the optimum development of the community can only take place in the broader joints between paving stones in more untrodden places, often in strips of pavement at the foots of walls where the shifting sand accumulates and turbulent air currents may play an important role.
  2. Of a person: undefeated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations