untested

adjective

un·​test·​ed ˌən-ˈte-stəd 

: not put to a test : not proved by trial or experience

untested new drugs

an untested politician

Examples of untested in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The researchers were dealing mostly in speculation — the gene modification technology that scientists could use to doom the screwworm is untested at scale and not ready to be deployed. —Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 June 2026

Some people just can’t wrap their heads around EVs and still see them as an exotic, untested technology. —Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

Unfortunately, in our legal system, anyone can file a lawsuit alleging anything, truthful or not, and then hide behind litigation privilege to justify the most salacious allegations, no matter how untrue and untested. —Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026

But that compact is fragile and untested, and aspiring for a more equitable city will require us to expel the bad blood of the Eighties. —Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1775, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for untested

• arrested
• attested
• congested
• contested
• detested
• digested
• divested
• infested
• ingested
• invested
• molested
• pretested