untutored
Americanadjective
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without formal instruction or education
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lacking sophistication or refinement
Etymology
Origin of untutored
Example Sentences
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"I was an untutored villager, with no idea of acting."
From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025
“His pictures,” Barnes wrote, “have the charm of a child’s fairy-tale, but there is nothing childish or untutored in the skill with which they are executed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
Although AI chatbots may seem to the untutored user to be generating their own thoughts in responding to questions, they don’t create content, as such.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025
“The untutored form of mark making and the ideas of representation and abstraction were such an important influence in the development of his own oeuvre and arguably in the development of Modern art.”
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022
Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent—he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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