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- Dictionaryuncharted/ʌnˈtʃɑːtɪd/
adjective
- 1. (of an area of land or sea) not mapped or surveyed: "the plane landed on a previously uncharted islet"
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completely new and not previously described or experienced, and therefore possibly difficult to deal with: Nuclear fusion has taken physicists into previously uncharted territory. We are going into uncharted waters with this new experiment. She urged young people to be more daring, to take more risks and venture into uncharted seas. Fewer examples.
: not recorded or plotted on a map, chart, or plan. an uncharted island. broadly : unknown. a discussion moving into uncharted territory. Examples of uncharted in a Sentence.
If you describe a situation, experience, or activity as uncharted territory or waters, you mean that it is new or unfamiliar. Carter's fourth album definitely moves into uncharted territory. ...a largely uncharted area of medical science. Synonyms: unexplored, unknown, undiscovered, strange More Synonyms of uncharted.
Uncharted definition: not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region. See examples of UNCHARTED used in a sentence.
If a place is uncharted, it means it isn't found on any map, like the uncharted wilderness settlers found when heading west, or, more figuratively — the uncharted territory of a new strategy.
completely new and not previously described or experienced, and therefore possibly difficult to deal with: Nuclear fusion has taken physicists into previously uncharted territory. We are going into uncharted waters with this new experiment. She urged young people to be more daring, to take more risks and venture into uncharted seas. Fewer examples.
Uncharted means ‘not yet mapped or surveyed’, and is often used in metaphorical phrases such as uncharted territory, for example ‘the campaign aims to push the brand into new uncharted territory’.
[usually before noun] not marked on a map; that has not been visited or investigated before. The ship hit an uncharted rock. They set off into the country's uncharted interior. (figurative) The party is sailing in uncharted waters (= a situation it has not been in before).
In all cases, uncharted refers to a lack of information, knowledge or understanding about a certain thing, place or field. The term is often used to describe something that is mysterious, unknown, and potentially dangerous, since it has not yet been explored or studied.
Uncharted definition: Not charted or recorded on a map or plan.
