untaught
Americanverb
adjective
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not taught; not acquired by teaching; natural.
untaught gentleness.
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not instructed or educated; naive; ignorant.
adjective
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without training or education
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attained or achieved without instruction
Etymology
Origin of untaught
Example Sentences
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Advocates say that left untaught, teens and young adults may turn to questionable sources, such as TikTok or YouTube videos.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Weight machines, by design, entirely remove skill from the equation: They are intended to offer the untaught user a way to lift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016
Norfolk describes the local farmers as untrained, untaught amateur engineers and talented landscape architects, who cut drainage ditches, smooth fields and dam streams.
From Time ● Jul. 28, 2015
All your pretty girls are untaught: sister Lizzie, of course; Emma with her reading lists; imbecilic Catherine Morland.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
She didn’t tell him how others seemed simply to come to her untaught.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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