Dictionary

untrodden en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + trodden.

Meanings

1. That has never been trod upon; unexplored, unspoiled.
   • 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. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342:
   • 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^([sic]) of walls where the shifting sand accumulates and turbulent air currents may play an important role. 1969, S. Segal, Ecological Notes on Wall Vegetation, published 2013, page 252:
   • Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights. 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
   • 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. 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
   • 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. 1994, Xenophon, translated by Amy L. Bonnette, Memorabilia, page 93:
2. Of a person: undefeated.

Forms

Deriveds

untroddenness

Translations (3)

bg неотъпкан (that has never been trod upon) · grc ἀτριβής (that has never been trod upon) · eo nesurtretita (that has never been trod upon)