uncharted

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An uncharted area has not had a map made of it and has not been described:

During survival training, he was criticized for venturing recklessly into uncharted wilderness.

Most of the underground tunnels and cave networks are uncharted or inadequately mapped.

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.

(of a place) never before described, or (of a situation) completely new:

New drugs lead doctors into uncharted territory.