unhandled
adjEtymology From un- + handled.
1
Not having been handled.
2
Figuratively Untrained, untame and beyond handling.
- […] 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; […]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]:
3
Without a handle; handleless.
- Some light came dimly through cracks around that connecting, unhandled door, and through the roof.1986, Norma Johnston, The Watcher in the Mist, page 170:
4
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Not having an associated handler routine.
- an unhandled event; an unhandled exception