unhandled en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English handled English unhandled From un- + handled.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Not having been handled.
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(figuratively, not-comparable) Untrained, untame and beyond handling.
[…] do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; […]
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
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(not-comparable) Without a handle; handleless.
Some light came dimly through cracks around that connecting, unhandled door, and through the roof.
1986, Norma Johnston, The Watcher in the Mist, page 170:
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(not-comparable) Not having an associated handler routine.
an unhandled event; an unhandled exception