to unlearn

Examples

• All

• You must unlearn what you have learned.

  The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

• I had to question all my assumptions, unlearn so much of what I had learned.

  Blog text (8)

• But it's really not practical and you have to unlearn all these things.

• It's just going to be very difficult for me to unlearn years of speaking to people.

• We're gonna unlearn whatever he taught you.

  The Man from Toronto (2022)

• Because again, a lot of this is you have to unlearn old bad behavior.

  Stephan Speaks

• I don't know how quickly we can unlearn it, but we'll try.

• Teachers must, in turn, correct these, and students must then methodically unlearn them before anything new can be attempted.

  Academic text (1998)

• I think we have to go through a huge major process of unlearning before we can relearn.

• We need to rethink the issue of race and unlearn some of our convictions regarding the matter.

  Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

F

to forget

vsto unlearn

∞ 1.8

Decide not to think about something

is a deliberate process to let go of previously acquired knowledge or habits

U

to unteach

vsto unlearn

1 8.4

Make someone stop a learned habit or belief

is an intentional self action to let go of previously held ideas

U

to untrain

vsto unlearn

6.5

Make a person or animal stop a learned habit

focuses on intentional letting go of knowledge and beliefs, not mainly skills

Antonyms

L

to learn

∞ 1.0

Get knowledge and skills in a subject by study or practice

How Remembered

to retain

47 3.2

to remember

∞ 1.0

to unlearn

9 6.4

to forget

∞ 1.0

to erase

156 2.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology