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

Etymology

Origin of uninstructed

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

Example Sentences

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

It was one of the few areas of Soviet life where the individual had agency, uninstructed by the state.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2018

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

It is only possible to an uninstructed mind to which water and wine differ only in taste or appearance.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman