Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having had no formal education or instruction.
  • adjective Unsophisticated; unrefined.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Uninstructed; untaught; rude; raw.

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  • adjective untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking in schooling

Etymologies

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un- +‎ tutored

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Examples

  • But a burgher named Sachs, arguing that singers should instead be wooing the "untutored" hearts of the masses, proposes letting the winner be chosen instead by a young woman named Eva along with the rest of the public.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Only Wire and Vic Godard & the Subway Sect down in London had anywhere near the kind of untutored intelligence and wit that The Fall exhibited an their debut single

    FallNet - the punk foot of nose 1998

  • Halder would mumble under his breath about the differences between professional and "untutored" opinion.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • They call untutored children Aes Sedai when half what they know is self-taught tricks and the other half barely scratches the surface. "

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance.

    Shakespeare Controversies 2010

  • Although fierce warriors, they were untutored in guerrilla warfare and fought from fixed fortresses, which American artillery and infantry invariably overwhelmed.

    An Insurgency and Its Lessons Mark Moyar 2011

  • If nothing else, these selections demonstrate that the man was more than an untutored soldier.

    Religion 2010

  • One of the aliens scuttled forward and fiddled with one of its gadgets, finally producing an audible series of grunts, whistles, and squeaks which to Jerome's untutored ears sounded exactly like the sounds of dolphins.

    A Simple Misunderstanding Harris Tobias 2011

  • If nothing else, these selections demonstrate that the man was more than an untutored soldier.

    Books 2010

  • If nothing else, these selections demonstrate that the man was more than an untutored soldier.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

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