untaught

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
verb cause to unlearn
adjective lacking in schooling

From Middle English untauȝt; equivalent to un- + taught.

And what do they see?--until late years, just a feeble, untaught child. — A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
He is a master in his art and I am an untaught man. — Phaedrus, Plato
It describes a man standing in his own right, and working after untaught methods. — Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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