uncharted
/ʌnˈtʃɑːtɪd
/adjective
(Of an area of land or sea) not mapped or surveyed: the plane landed on a previously uncharted islet an uncharted region of space figurative the present study is a foray into uncharted territory...
- It requires going into uncharted areas that may or may not be popular.
- All that was necessary to test that hypothesis was to get on a ship and go to one of these uncharted areas and see.
- On top of that, the question of involving the private service providers had remained an uncharted field.
Synonyms
unexplored, untravelled, undiscovered, unresearched, unplumbed, unfamiliar, unknown, strange;
unmapped, unsurveyed
Usage
Uncharted means ‘not yet mapped or surveyed’. Especially in the phrase uncharted territory, it is confused with unchartered, a far less common word that means ‘not having a charter or written constitution’. Unchartered territory constitutes around 10 per cent of the total citations for the phrase in the Oxford English Corpus.
Rhymes
- black stripe
- black studies
- black stump
- black sugar
- black sugar maple
- black swallow
- black swallowtail
- black swan
- black swift
- black-tailed
- black-tailed deer
- black-tailed godwit
- black tang
- black tar
- black taxi
- black tea
- black tellurium
- black theology
- blackthorn
- blackthorn winter
- black-throat
- black-throated
- black-throated diver
- Black Thursday
- black tie