untutored

Examples

• All

• What follows is based on my very untutored impressions of Jewish theology and history.

  Blog text (7)

• Every afternoon, I was set free, untutored and untouched till supper, to learn on my own the natural side of God's order.

  A River Runs Through It (1992)

• Anxiety that such an untutored member of their community had been the only one to offer the courtesy of a question.

  Fiction book (1990)

• With Chris, "Her mind, though untutored, never mistook signs for truth."

  Academic text (2014)

• "I saw it clearly, with one of those swift, untutored leaps of connection that you make sometimes, for no reason at all."

  Fiction book (1998)

• But the pages had been sent by someone totally inexperienced and untutored in how to submit a manuscript to a prospective publisher.

  Fiction book (2002)

• For example, it was Androcles who pointed out Keith Henderson as someone with particularly powerful, if untutored, psychic powers.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Differences among the species, though hard for the untutored eye to discern, are evident in the green bracts on the flowers' undersides.

  Academic text (2002)

• Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Teviotdale... now, suddenly, with a real crack at it.

  The Professor and the Madman (2019)

• To the untutored eye, the painting appeared simple, but it was infused with deep meaning.

Synonyms

U

uneducated

vsuntutored

56 2.8

A person who has little or no schooling

covers the same idea but can imply poorer schooling quality

U

untrained

vsuntutored

31 3.4

Having no teaching or practice to do a task well

focuses on missing skills rather than general schooling

I

illiterate

vsuntutored

16 4.8

Not knowing much about a subject

is wider, not only the absence of formal schooling broadly

U

uninitiated

vsuntutored

8 8.0

People who do not know about a subject or activity

focuses on inexperience rather than lacking formal education

U

unenlightened

vsuntutored

6 7.0

Not knowing or understanding important information

is vaguer, implying ignorance rather than specific lack of schooling

U

undereducated

vsuntutored

4 4.2

Not having enough schooling to learn basic reading and math

describes lacking education but stresses its inadequacy

U

unschooled

vsuntutored

3 5.5

A person who has no formal education

is the more neutral single-word form for this idea

U

unlettered

vsuntutored

1 8.9

People who cannot read or write

is different, focusing on literacy rather than general schooling

U

untaught

vsuntutored

1 6.8

A person who has not had school or lessons

focuses on absence of teaching rather than general schooling

U

undertrained

vsuntutored

1 5.7

A person or group who does not have enough skills for a job

is about general lack of schooling not task-specific shortfall

U

unlearned

vsuntutored

1 7.7

A person with little education or knowledge about a subject

is broader, covering general ignorance not only missing schooling

U

unstudied

vsuntutored

1 6.8

Not having much knowledge of a subject

implies absence of formal study rather than no schooling generally

U

uninstructed

vsuntutored

6.9

Someone who has no training or basic knowledge about a subject

includes lack of schooling but emphasises not being taught

U

uncultivated

vsuntutored

• Offensive

7.1

A person who has little schooling or interest in the arts

leans toward manners and culture rather than formal learning

Antonyms

E

educated

36 3.2

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

How Educated

learned

• Formal

6.0

educated

36 3.2

trained

1.9

self-educated

4 4.6

untutored

3 7.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology