untaught

American  

[uhn-tawt] / ʌnˈtɔt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unteach.

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adjective

1. not taught; not acquired by teaching; natural.

   untaught gentleness.

2. not instructed or educated; naive; ignorant.

untaught British  

/ ʌnˈtɔːt /

adjective

1. without training or education

2. attained or achieved without instruction

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Etymology

Origin of untaught

untaught ( defs. 2, 3 ) un- ¹ + taught

Example Sentences

Advocates say that left untaught, teens and young adults may turn to questionable sources, such as TikTok or YouTube videos.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

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

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