Untaught
[ʌn'tɔːt]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Ignorant, uninstructed, uneducated, untutored, untrained, uninformed, unenlightened, unlettered, illiterate.
Editor: Margie
Definition
adj. not taught illiterate: not communicated by teaching: ignorant.
Checker: Lucille
Examples
- I was an untaught shepherd-boy, when Adrian deigned to confer on me his friendship. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What an unsophisticated, untaught thing! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I, one day, he continued, determined to try what effect I could produce on an untaught servant-maid. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Though Lucy was untaught, her mother's conversation and manners gave her a taste for refinements superior to her present situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She haunts the wood harmless and thoughtful, though of what one so untaught can think it is not easy to divine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Quite an untaught genius, I made the discovery of the line of action for myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If we _will keep_ a shambling, loose, untaught set in the community, for our convenience, why, we must take the consequence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Lucille