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
Illiterate, il-lit′ėr-āt, adj. not learned: uninstructed: ignorant.—n.pl. a term used to designate those persons who are unable to read or write or both.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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