untrackedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈtrakt/, U.S. /ˌənˈtrækt/ 1. Through which no way has been found or made; not furnished with a track or path.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > trackless, pathless
waylessOE
gatelessc1175
pathless1596
untracked1603
untracted1610
unpatheda1616
invious1622
trailless1884
α.
β. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. iv. 353 That they might not erre in that sandy and vntracked wildernesse.1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 172 The untrack'd path to Bliss.1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 391 After a long day's march through untracked ways.1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. 350 The road was untracked and fatiguing.1830 New Monthly Mag. 30 8/1 Regions yet untracked by any Europeans.1894 Outing 23 347/2 A long, dark object lying..on the untracked snow beneath the trees.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 309 The rest..hauing on horsebacke all alone by vncouth and vntract waies, trauailed three daies without meat.
1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 32 Drawn by wing'd Horses through the untract Air.
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses iii. 40 So the Eagle..beholds his hardy youthful Offspring Forsake the Nest, to try his tender Pinions, In the wide untract Air.
2. Not tracked or traced; not followed up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [adjective] > not followed up
unprosecuted1648
untracked1680
untraced1713
1680 T. Otway Orphan iii. 37 At Midnight thus the Us'rer steals untract [1726 untrack'd], To make a Visit to his hoarded Gold.
1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xiv. 12 Just persons..untracked by the hounds of war.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xxxiv. 95 A reflection of the deed still untracked and unavenged.
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adj.1603