untested 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 tested English untested From un- + tested.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Not previously tested.
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, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research, page 197: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.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 306:
Antonyms
tested · battle-tested · tried and true · tried and tested
Coordinates
Synonyms
Translations (6)
nb utestet (not previously tested) · da utestet (not previously tested) · cs neotestovaný (not previously tested) · cs netestovaný (not previously tested) · la inexpertus (not previously tested) · grc ἀδοκίμαστος (not previously tested)