Uninitiated
[ʌnɪ'nɪʃɪeɪtɪd] or [,ʌnɪ'nɪʃɪetɪd]
Examples
- Externally it presents the appearance of some curious, uncouth, cast iron box, which, to the uninitiated, piques the curiosity, and when opened adds no explanation of its real character. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Generally speaking, non-technical and uninitiated persons have a tendency to regard an invention as being more or less the ultimate result of some happy inspiration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of these was that so messages might be sent understandable by the sender and receiver, but not plain to the uninitiated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here, for the benefit of the uninitiated, a little description of the film and the projecting head of a machine is necessary. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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