Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not instructed or taught; not educated.
- Not directed by superior authority; not furnished with instructions.
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- adjective Not
instructed - adjective archaic
uneducated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking information or instruction
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Examples
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June 29th, 2006 at 5: 00 pm madashell says: “A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed.
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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed.
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She and her husband are but foreigners; they are "uninstructed"; the born and bred Athenian needs must smile at them, if he do not think a frown more fitting for such ignorance.
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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"Norm went in uninstructed," a senior Bush administration official recalled.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011
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"Norm went in uninstructed," a senior Bush administration official recalled.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011
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O.P. Jindal was one of Indias greatest uninstructed engineers, his biographer Anil Dharker writes.
India's Savitri Jindal Dinesh Narayanan 2010
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And the mass public, uninstructed in ideology, wanders.
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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O.P. Jindal was one of Indias greatest uninstructed engineers, his biographer Anil Dharker writes.
India's Richest Woman Focuses On Public Life Dinesh Narayanan 2010
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Thus uninstructed I went back to Houston and wrote a treatment about the Murrell rebellion that was more than four hundred pages long.
HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010
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After word of the terrible deeds spread and was duly exaggerated, German dispatch riders could safely continue on their way, until reaching some other uninstructed part of the world, where the sequence would have to be repeated.
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