unhandled

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ handled.

Adjective

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unhandled (not comparable)

  1. Not having been handled.
  2. (figurative) Untrained, untame and beyond handling.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
      [] do but note a wild and wanton herd,
      Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
      Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
      Which is the hot condition of their blood; []
  3. Without a handle; handleless.
    • 1986, Norma Johnston, The Watcher in the Mist, page 170:
      Some light came dimly through cracks around that connecting, unhandled door, and through the roof.
  4. (computing) Of an event, exception, etc.: not having a handler.