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untaught

untaught

1 6.8
A person who has not had school or lessons
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈtɔt/
translation icon : no educado
  • 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.

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (2015)
  • 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."

    Academic text (2003)
  • Many children in developing countries remain untaught due to a lack of resources.

  • The untaught skills of the local artists impressed the visitors at the exhibition.

  • Despite being untaught, she demonstrated an incredible talent for music.

Synonyms

uneducated
vsuntaught
56 2.8

A person who has little or no schooling

emphasizes absence of teaching rather than broader social or cultural learning
untrained
vsuntaught
31 3.4

Having no teaching or practice to do a task well

is about missing formal education rather than lacking hands-on skill
illiterate
vsuntaught
16 4.8

Not knowing much about a subject

applies more broadly to lacking formal schooling rather than one subject
uninitiated
vsuntaught
8 8.0

People who do not know about a subject or activity

means missing taught education generally, not only unfamiliarity with one area
unenlightened
vsuntaught
6 7.0

Not knowing or understanding important information

is specifically about absence of formal teaching rather than general ignorance
unschooled
vsuntaught
3 5.5

A person who has no formal education

is the general state of lacking formal schooling rather than specific gaps
untutored
vsuntaught
3 7.8

Having no formal schooling or lessons

is about lacking wider formal education rather than only private lessons
unlettered
vsuntaught
1 8.9

People who cannot read or write

covers missing formal teaching more generally, not only literacy ability
unlearned
vsuntaught
1 7.7

A person with little education or knowledge about a subject

concerns the specific absence of formal teaching or schooling
unstudied
vsuntaught
1 6.8

Not having much knowledge of a subject

refers to missing taught education broadly rather than only study-based gaps
uninstructed
vsuntaught
6.9

Someone who has no training or basic knowledge about a subject

focuses more on lacking formal overall education than a single lesson

Antonyms

36 3.2

A person who has a good education and a lot of knowledge

1.9

Able to do something well because of practice

How Educated

well-educated
40 3.9
educated
36 3.2
untaught
1 6.8
illiterate
29 3.7

Surface Forms

untaught positive

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.