unlearnt
Britishadjective
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denoting knowledge or skills innately present and therefore not learnt
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not learnt or taken notice of
unlearnt lessons
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Despite these changes, some lessons remained unlearnt for years after 9/11.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
"The Fukushima accident is the result of unlearnt lessons of Chernobyl," Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2011
In fact, the prudential morality, based on motives of health and reputation and success, is a thing that has often to be deliberately unlearnt at a later stage.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
It was because she cared only for cousins that I unlearnt the way to her house, which she had once reminded me was one of the few paths of gentility I could hope to tread.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
And a hundred lessons on farming had to be learnt, and a hundred more to be unlearnt.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
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