UNTOUCHED Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

untouched

adjective

Definition of untouched

as in unaltered

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Recent Examples of untouched The result is a politics in which almost everyone agrees that reform is urgently needed, provided someone else pays, and their own group’s advantages remain untouched. — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 Walking back to a hotel room and finding the bed untouched is no longer necessarily a sign that housekeeping forgot about you. — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 This included landings on untouched white sand beaches, in the shadow of immense glaciers, with ice floes drifting quietly offshore. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 In Chester County, an affluent region west of Philadelphia, a lawyer left cases untouched for as long as two years before the county ended his contract last fall. — Samantha Melamed, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for untouched

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Adjective

Sellers must include at least one unaltered photo of the actual item against a real background.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
These unaltered cosmic fingerprints let researchers map the temperatures, environmental conditions, and chemical reservoirs that produced organic matter billions of years ago.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of unaltered

Adjective

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is demanding the release of four Salvadoran military personnel ambushed by an armed gang in Haiti, warning that the gangs would face his wrath if the men are not returned alive and unharmed.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
The special forces arrived a day after Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele announced a military operation to rescue the four aviation technicians and threatened a more forceful response if they’re not released alive and unharmed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unharmed

Adjective

For residents in the surrounding area, the water is still safe to drink, as the source remains uncontaminated, the city said.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
Even though Scottish Water already recycled uncontaminated sample bottles, the Generations technology offers a much better way to process large volumes of the waste.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncontaminated

Adjective

In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, evil is a native sickness that contaminates an otherwise perfect, unsullied child of empire.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
But the prosecutor leading the case against the Tates, Rareș Stan, had an unsullied reputation.

— Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Definition of unsullied

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