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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Tracing the interaction of taught and untaught artists over the past century, this exhibition tackles an impossibly immense subject and starts stronger than it finishes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
The very thing that this museum is about — the contributions of black people to U.S. society — has been untaught for so long that the truth remains elusive.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
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
She didn’t tell him how others seemed simply to come to her untaught.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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