Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not trained; not disciplined; uneducated; uninstructed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not trained.
  • adjective obsolete Not trainable; indocile.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.

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

  • adjective not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training

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Examples

  • In research from France, citrulline was shown to help prevent post-exercise fatigue and muscle soreness in untrained athletes, when taken after exercise.

    Leo Galland, M.D.: How to Boost Immunity After Exercise M.D. Leo Galland 2010

  • Obviously I do not support the idea of untrained and unsanctioned bailifs restraining or even distraining.

    Middle Classes Tell Cam: Sod Off, We're In It For The Money 2008

  • The idea of the amendment was for a militia, defined as untrained civilians, non-military trained civilians to protect their country.

    Bill Of Rights in my opinion 2007

  • Derec shuddered at the idea of untrained people teasing through the tatters of a positronic brain.

    Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

  • In the case of the man with the so-called untrained sense, therefore, it is questionable whether the failure to see, hear, etc., is in many cases so much a lack of ability to use the particular sense, as it is a lack of practical interest in this phase of the objective world.

    Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • It's kind of ironic that the Romantics seized on folk culture as a lifeline, a balm for Classical formality — such "untrained" art was a more direct pathway to emotional communication.

    Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It's kind of ironic that the Romantics seized on folk culture as a lifeline, a balm for Classical formality — such "untrained" art was a more direct pathway to emotional communication.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained," and it will be July 2006 before the administration reaches its new goal of a 135,000-strong, fully trained police force.

    09/26/2004 2004

  • All of the Royal Dancers and some of the courtiers would be participating, the courtiers as a kind of untrained, minimally-moving background to the Dancers, all two hundred of them, who were schooled from the time they were five and performed until they were deemed too old to be decorative.

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • I don't plan on paying anything as long as they let these people who are 'untrained' in those situations carry firearms in the stores.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local SL10 2010

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