underexplored

Adjective

Meaning

underexplored (comparative more underexplored, superlative most underexplored)

Not explored (either physically or intellectually) to the usual degree
This is an underexplored problem in ethics.
The deep ocean floor remains underexplored.

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New York’s Center for Architecture is hosting an exhibition entitled: City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982 The history of modern architecture in Baghdad has been relatively underexplored and is still not well known. Source: Internet

The block is in the underexplored Salman tectonic zone. Source: Internet

Once again Dorthe Nors writes with precision and depth of the underexplored (in literature) experience of single childless women in their forties. Source: Internet

We never learn why he was raised by his grandmother in Durham, N.C. (his parents lived in Washington, D.C.) and his admission that he has never been in love is underexplored. Source: Internet

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