uninstructed

American  

[uhn-in-struhk-tid] / ˌʌn ɪnˈstrʌk tɪd /

adjective

1. not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.

2. (of a person acting in a representative capacity) not furnished with orders on how to proceed or vote; uncommitted.

   uninstructed convention delegates.

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Other Word Forms

• uninstructedly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of uninstructed

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + instruct + -ed ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

uninstructed

Likewise, it’s also introducing a “Just workout” feature — meaning that any uninstructed activity can be recorded within the Peloton app.

From The Verge ● May 13, 2022

“The uninstructed eye sees things the expert does not notice,” Steinbeck wrote in that first submission to Le Figaro.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2019

Such robust and uninstructed behavior represents the most convincing evidence yet of analogical reasoning in a non-primate animal, as only apes had spontaneously shown analogical reasoning after learning to match identical items.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 10, 2015

This far into the human story, only the historically uninstructed are startled by what they think are new permutations of evil.

From Washington Post

For the benefit of the uninstructed it may be well to say that when we speak of our "porch" on our part of the Cape, we mean the same thing as an ell.

From Pilgrim Trails A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook by Frances Lester Warner

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