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Unlearned

//ʌnˈlɝnɪd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.

    "How much do I know / To talk out of turn / You might say that I'm young / You might say I'm unlearned / But there's one thing I know / Though I'm younger than you / Even Jesus would never / Forgive what you do"

  2. 2
    Of a behavior: not learned; innate.
  3. 3
    Of information: that has not (yet) been learned; unknown.

    "Did she ever return? No, she never returned. Her fate is yet unlearned Though for years and years there were fond ones watching For the ship that never returned."

Adjective
  1. 1
    uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication wordnet
  2. 2
    not established by conditioning or learning wordnet
  3. 3
    not well learned wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of unlearn (“discard the knowledge of”) form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English unlerned (“not taught, uneducated”). By surface analysis, un- (“not”) + learned (“educated”).

Etymology 2

From un- (“not”) + learned (“studied”), past participle of learn.

Etymology 3

From Middle English unlernyd (“obliterated from memory, forgotten”), equivalent to unlearn + -ed.

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