untaught
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtɔt/
- Students with visual impairments often miss the subtle, untaught information that provides the basis for understanding key concepts on which general education is based.
A gift untaught is a ship unguided, they said to Otter, and they taught him all they knew.
- A gift untaught is a ship unguided, they said to Otter, and they taught him all they knew.
Examples
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Indeed, the Christian vocabulary makes untaught Christians (and some who have been taught and ought to know better) think Williamson is simply expanding on the biblical truths they already embrace.
Blog text (10) -
Also, students were able to generalize their responses and use of prepositions to three different untaught activities.
Academic text (2015) -
But you are still untaught, are you not, however strong?
Fiction book (1992) -
Students were asked to identify cause-and-effect relationships across four short historical passages relating to general history content that had previously been untaught to them.
Academic text (2015) -
Therefore, in a school setting, interventionists may consider introducing break requests concurrently in multiple tasks to better ensure that students generalize behaviors to untaught tasks.
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In Proverbs 1-9, the "simple youth" (i.e., untaught, inexperienced) meets two women, one wise and one foolish, and hears their invitations to follow her way.
Academic text (2005) -
Harvard University Professor Robert Foerster, in his 1919 classic The Italian Emigration of Our Times, contended, "it is the untaught child in the man that sways the destinies of southern Italians."
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Many children in developing countries remain untaught due to a lack of resources.
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The untaught skills of the local artists impressed the visitors at the exhibition.
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Despite being untaught, she demonstrated an incredible talent for music.
Synonyms
A person who has little or no schooling
Having no teaching or practice to do a task well
Not knowing much about a subject
People who do not know about a subject or activity
Not knowing or understanding important information
A person who has no formal education
Having no formal schooling or lessons
People who cannot read or write
A person with little education or knowledge about a subject
Not having much knowledge of a subject
Someone who has no training or basic knowledge about a subject
Antonyms
How Educated
Surface Forms
Morphology
untaught = taught (transparent) = un + taught
The negative prefix 'un-' directly negates the adjective 'taught', so the meaning is clearly 'not taught'.
Etymology
The word untaught is made of the first part un- meaning 'not' and taught, the past form of teach, as in teacher. So untaught simply means 'not taught' or not having formal education.