uninstructed
Americanadjective
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not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
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(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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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
Had she not seen the glow with which he expounded his ideas and purposes, forgetting she was a humble, uninstructed listener, and surrounding her soul with the sweet unction of the implied perfect equality?
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill
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