untaught as an adjective: - 1
unteach as a verb: - 1
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untaught
adjective
1 untaught
Lacking in schooling:
— Untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient.
synonyms: unschooled, untutored.
Roget 491:
ignorant;
nescient;
unknowing,
unaware,
unacquainted,
unapprised,
unapprized†,
unwitting,
unweeting†,
unconscious;
witless,
weetless†;
a stranger to;
unconversant†.
uninformed,
uncultivated,
unversed,
uninstructed,
untaught,
uninitiated,
untutored,
unschooled,
misguided,
unenlightened;
Philistine;
behind the age.
shallow,
superficial,
green,
rude,
empty,
half-learned,
illiterate;
unread,
uninformed,
uneducated,
unlearned,
unlettered,
unbookish;
empty-headed,
dizzy,
wooly-headed;
pedantic;
in the dark;
benighted,
belated;
blinded,
blindfolded;
hoodwinked;
misinformed;
au bout de son latin,
at the end of his tether,
at fault;
at sea
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
caught tripping.
unknown,
unapprehended,
unexplained,
unascertained,
uninvestigated†,
unexplored,
unheard of,
not perceived;
concealed
etc.
528;
novel.
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Roget 674:
unprepared
etc.
(prepare);
&c.;
673;
without preparation
etc.
673;
incomplete
etc.
53;
rudimental,
embryonic,
abortive;
immature,
unripe,
kachcha†,
raw,
green,
crude;
coarse;
rough cast,
rough hewn;
in the rough;
unhewn†,
unformed,
unfashioned†,
unwrought,
unlabored†,
unblown,
uncooked,
unboiled,
unconcocted,
unpolished.
unhatched,
unfledged,
unnurtured†,
unlicked†,
untaught,
uneducated,
uncultivated,
untrained,
untutored,
undrilled,
unexercised;
deckle-edged†;
precocious,
premature;
undigested,
indigested†;
unmellowed†,
unseasoned,
unleavened.
unrehearsed,
unscripted,
extemporaneous,
improvised,
spontaneous,
ad lib,
ad libitem [Lat.].
fallow;
unsown,
untilled;
natural,
in a state of nature;
undressed;
in dishabille,
en deshabille [Fr.].
unqualified,
disqualified;
unfitted;
ill-digested;
unbegun,
unready,
unarranged†,
unorganized,
unfurnished,
unprovided,
unequipped,
untrimmed;
out of gear,
out of order;
dismantled
etc.
v..
shiftless,
improvident,
unthrifty,
thriftless,
thoughtless,
unguarded;
happy-go-lucky;
caught napping
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†;
unpremeditated
etc.
612.
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Moby thesaurus: Gothic, Philistine, amateurish, barbarous, benighted, bookless, deceived, empty-headed, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, know-nothing, led astray, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, semiskilled, unaccomplished, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unbusinesslike, uncoached, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unendowed, unerudite, unfinished, ungifted, unguided, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unpolished, unprepared, unprimed, unprofessional, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unskilled, unstudious, untalented, untrained, untutored ... show more.
unteach
verb
1 unteach
2 unteach
Cause to unlearn.
Dutch: afleren, afwennen, ontwennen
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