unmanipulated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not handled, altered, controlled, or artificially arranged

   The study compared the edited images with the unmanipulated originals.

Formed from un- ("not") + manipulated. Manipulate comes from French manipuler and ultimately Latin manipulus ("handful"), so its earliest sense concerned handling before it broadened to deliberate alteration or control.

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