not practiced; not habitually or repeatedly done, performed, etc.
2.
not skilled or experienced
unpracticed in American English
(unˈpræktɪst)
adjective
1.
not trained or skilled; inexpert
an unpracticed actor
2.
not practiced; not usually or generally used or done; not put into effect
Alsoesp Britunpractised
Word origin
[1530–40; un-1 + practiced]This word is first recorded in the period 1530–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analogy, area, illegitimate, saturate, starterun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment)
Examples of 'unpracticed' in a sentence
unpracticed
To investigate this, we used a previously unpracticed sequence of ten hand postures.
Masanori Sakamoto, Noriyoshi Moriyama, Nobuaki Mizuguchi, Tetsuro Muraoka, KazuyukiKanosue 2012, 'Modulation of corticospinal excitability during acquisition of action sequences byobservation.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3353994?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Retrieval practice of previously studied material can impair subsequent memory for related unpracticed material.
Bernhard eSpitzer 2014, 'Finding retrieval-induced forgetting in recognition tests: A case for baseline memorystrength', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01102/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)