untouched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʌt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ʌtʃt
Forms: form: more untouched
form: most untouched
form: untoucht
Etymology: From un- + touched.
Senses: examples: text: There are practically no untouched forests left in Europe.
text: The altars used for magical purposes were of carved wood or, if made of stone, had to be a natural slab, unhewn and untouched by hammer or chisel.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:
text: Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
ref: 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
text: HS2 Ltd has continued to refine the designs, so that seven fewer ancient woodlands will be affected. This reduces the total number to 25. And of those 25 woodlands, 85% of the total area will remain untouched by HS2.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:
synonyms: unaltered
unscathed
unspoiled
unsullied
virgin
glosses: Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged; not altered.
examples: text: He left his vegetables untouched.
synonyms: unconsumed
uneaten
undevoured
unscarfed
unscoffed
glosses: Not eaten.
examples: text: She was untouched by his tale of woes.
synonyms: word: indifferent
word: unmoved
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Not influenced, affected or swayed.
examples: text: Our chocolates are untouched by human hands.
text: Once the tough job is done for Prosser, he says he can then get his golf clubs back out - they have been in the cupboard untouched for a decade.
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 37:
synonyms: unhandled
glosses: Not having come in contact.
examples: text: He was about to open one of the scrolls, when Francesca took them from his hand. "Nay, Guido, we will not read them: there are some letters never meant but for one eye, and such are these. This packet shall be given untouched into Lord Avonleigh's"—she corrected her words—"into my father's own hands."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 165:
synonyms: unexamined
unread
unscanned
glosses: Not read or examined.
examples: text: Politics was an untouched topic in our family.
synonyms: indiscussed
unaddressed
undiscoursed
undiscussed
glosses: Not discussed or talked about.