untopped

English

Etymology

un- +‎ topped

Adjective

untopped (not comparable)

1. Not having had the top cut off.
   • 2010, Craig Macaskill, editor, The National Agricultural Directory 2011, page 168:

     Recently, there is commercial interest in planting trellised, untopped trees for earlier production in slow-growing regions such as the Western Cape.

2. Not covered with a topping.
   • 2000, Beth Hensperger, The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook:

     In a Paris pizzeria, I watched rounds of pliable, untopped pizza dough get tossed into a very hot wood-burning oven and emerge puffed up, to be sprinkled simply with olive oil and salt.

3. Unsurpassed.
   • 1988, Zvi Yavetz, Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome, page 5:

     Thucydides, writing many centuries ago, averred that men usually embark on wars of conquest out of an aspiration for power, wealth, or out of fear. This statement is still untopped in its concision and aptness.