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
At whose behest I long ago So much unlearnt, so much resign'd— I come not here to be your foe!
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
But if from him thou learnest The lore of falsehood, it were best unlearnt; Or if the instruction comes of thine own thought, Such would-be kindness doth not prove thee kind.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
What boy is there who never laid Under his pillow, half afraid, That precious volume, lest the morrow For unlearnt lessons might bring sorrow?
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
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