unplumbed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ plumbed

Adjective

unplumbed (comparative more unplumbed, superlative most unplumbed)

  1. Not measured for depth, with or as if with a plumb.
    The unplumbed depths of the sea will remain a mystery to land-bound humans.
  2. (figurative) Not assayed or measured in any way.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 207:
      There he was suddenly checked, facing the unplumbed complexity of child or woman in her.
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