unhandled
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unhandled (not comparable)
- Not having been handled.
- (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; […]
- 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.
- (computing) Of an event, exception, etc.: not having a handler.