Dictionary Definition
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]
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Adjective
Verb
unlearned- past of unlearn
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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