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Untouched vs Unhandseled - What's the difference?

untouched | unhandseled |

As adjectives the difference between untouched and unhandseled

is that untouched is remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged while unhandseled is (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure.

untouched

English

Alternative forms

* untoucht (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
  • Not eaten.
  • Not influenced, affected or swayed.
  • Not having come in contact.
  • Not talked about.

    • unhandseled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure
  • * 1837 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar
    • Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.