Unlearned

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unlearned \Un*learn"ed\, a. [Pref. un- + learned.]
     1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
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     2. Not gained by study; not known.
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     3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*learn"ed*ly}, adv. --
        {Un*learn"ed*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unlearned
       adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an
              unconditioned reflex" [syn: {unconditioned}, {innate}]
              [ant: {conditioned}]
       2: not well learned
       3: lacking general education or knowledge; "an ignorant man";
          "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group
          incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting
          contempt for his unlettered companions" [syn: {ignorant},
          {nescient}, {unenlightened}, {unlettered}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, untutored