unlearned
IPA: ʌnɫˈɝnd
adjective
- ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
- Of a behavior: not learned; innate.
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Examples of "unlearned" in Sentences
- He frequently speaks of himself as "unlearned," and in the technical sense of the word he was unlearned.
- Everything they had learned about the handling of guns had to be "unlearned" and a system entirely different substituted for it.
- Neither the learned nor the unlearned were the better for all the messages God sent them by his servants the prophets, nor desired to be so.
- The first lesson is really one that we have unlearned, which is that there actually isn't a distinct psychological profile of the school killer.
- Many in traditional churches -- Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans, and Congregationalists -- found extemporaneous prayer to be theologically shallow and "unlearned" and forbade its exercise in their churches.
- Since the beginning of the present century, we have seen many examples, not only of natural genius, but of enthusiastic resolution, even in unlearned women; prompted by the purest and most feminine passion of the human soul
- Since the beginning of the present century, we have seen many examples, not only of natural genius, but of enthusiastic resolution, even in unlearned women; prompted by the purest and most feminine passion of the human soul *.
- He who fills up or occupies the place of the unlearned, that is, as the ancients interpret it, the body of the people, who, in most Christian assemblies, are illiterate; how should they say Amen to prayers in an unknown tongue?
- The "unlearned" hardly think of usurping Tyndall's place in the lecture room, or of taking his cuneiform bricks from Rawlinson; yet the world has been much more prolific of learned scientists and philologers than of able generals.
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