as in pristine
not having been traveled over or through
the documentary captures the mountainous wilderness in all of its untamed and untraversed glory
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Adjective
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As the resort sits on the shores of a pristine white sand beach, water activities are an all-day and night affair (moonlight snorkeling is a thing here).—
Nneka M. Okona,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026 -
On Wednesday, the venerable ballpark will be named Sports Field Management Association’s (SMFA) 2025 Field of the Year, in the schools and parks category, for its pristine natural grass surface, a tribute to those who maintain it and a first for the state of Connecticut.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In spring the central walkway becomes a riot of flowering crab apples and bare shoulders (I had been told), but now the kiosks were shuttered, the trees skeletal, the paths plowed but untrodden.—
Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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The path from political relative to TV star is hardly untrodden, however.—
Jon Allsop,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Opening up the process has raised questions about attributing asteroid names to students whose future is still an untraveled road, however.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2023
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Furthermore, much of the Sino-Russian border is remote and untraveled, making arms transfers difficult to detect.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
23 Feb. 2023
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Other neighborhoods remain mainly pathless, with some residents resistant to changing their community's streetscaping.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.—
Leah Hall,
Country Living,
5 Jan. 2023
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“Untraversed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untraversed. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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