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unlearned (root: unlearn)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective unlearned has 3 senses
- unlearned(a = adj.all) innate, unconditioned - not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"
- unlearned(s = adj.all) Array - not well learned; Array
- unlearned(s = adj.all) ignorant, nescient, unlettered - uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
CIDE DICTIONARY
unlearned, a. [Pref. un- + learned.].
- Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. [1913 Webster]
- Not gained by study; not known. [1913 Webster]
- Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unlearned, adj. not well educated; untaught, ignorant.
Derivative
unlearnedly adv.
unlearned, adj. (also unlearnt) that has not been learnt.
THESAURUS
unlearned
Gothic, Philistine, automatic, barbarous, bookless, deceived, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, impulsive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, led astray, libidinal, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, natural, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, spontaneous, subliminal, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unconscious, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutoredROGET THESAURUS
unlearned
Ignorance
N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, 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, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.
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