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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Nor was he as untaught as he claimed; he took classes and learned a great deal from his painter friends.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2021
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
Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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