unlearned

[ uhn-lur-nid uhn-lurnd ]

adjective

1. not learned; not scholarly or erudite.
2. uneducated; untaught; unschooled; ignorant.
3. not acquired by instruction, study, etc.
4. known without being learned.
5. of or relating to uneducated persons.

unlearned

/ ʌnˈlɜːnɪd /

adjective

1. ignorant or untaught

Derived Forms

• unˈlearnedly, adverb

Other Words From

• un·learned·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unlearned¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, unlearned is from the Middle English word unlerned. See un- ¹, learned

Example Sentences

But whether the history has been “untold” or not, the problem is that it has been almost entirely “unlearned.”

From The Daily Beast

Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the hours of discipline.

From Project Gutenberg

The name of the field beet is, in the language of the unlearned, mangel-wurzel, "the root of poverty."

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After a time he might, if it were thought desirable, be sent into Ireland as a missionary to the rude and unlearned people.

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Thus brooded Rotil, unlearned driver of burros and general of an army of the people!

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I was his master, however unlearned I 136 might be; his elder and master, to be sure, in a broil of our folk.

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