Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not educated; ignorant or illiterate.
- adjective Not skilled or versed in a specified discipline.
- adjective Not acquired by training or studying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not learned; ignorant; illiterate; not instructed; inexperienced.
- Not suitable to a learned man; not becoming a scholar.
- (un-lėrnd′ ). Not gained by study; not known; not acquired by investigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
- adjective Not gained by study; not known.
- adjective Not exhibiting learning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a person,
ignorant ,uneducated ,untaught ,untrained . - adjective Of a behavior, not
learned ;innate . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unlearn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- adjective not established by conditioning or learning
- adjective not well learned
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Examples
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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
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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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 *.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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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.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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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?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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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.
Slate Magazine 2009
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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.
Diana Butler Bass: Happy National Day of Prayer...Or Is It National Day of Fighting Over Prayer? 2010
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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.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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Everything they had learned about the handling of guns had to be "unlearned" and a system entirely different substituted for it.
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He frequently speaks of himself as "unlearned," and in the technical sense of the word he was unlearned.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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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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