unhandled

[ uhn-han-dld ]
/ ʌnˈhæn dld /

adjective

not handled; not touched.
(of animals) untamed; unbroken; untrained.

Origin of unhandled

First recorded in 1550–60; un-1 + handled

Words nearby unhandled

unhair, unhallow, unhallowed, unhampered, unhand, unhandled, unhandsome, unhandy, unhappy, unharmed, unharness

Example sentences from the Web for unhandled

  • It seems strange that the great store of treasure which he opened to us should have been unhandled and unknown so long.

    My Contemporaries In Fiction |David Christie Murray

  • The tea-cups, saucered and lidded, but unhandled, stood in a row before the polished brass hot-water kettle.

    The Best Short Stories of 1919 |Various

  • It will take a power that some of us have not known to let that glass go untouched, and that quieting drug untasted and unhandled.

    Quiet Talks on Power |S.D. Gordon

  • I would to God that I, too, possessed the tender irritableness of unhandled sensibility.

    Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) |Samuel Taylor Coleridge