Untaught

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not taught; uneducated.

    "My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree"

  2. 2
    Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction. not-comparable

    "What they used to teach here Now goes untaught."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking in schooling wordnet

Synonyms

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unschooledamateurishbarbaricbarbarousbenightedbookless

Example

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""There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse.""

Etymology

From Middle English untauȝt; equivalent to un- + taught.

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