unlearned
Meanings
Verb
- try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge
- discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
- simple past and past participle of unlearn (“discard the knowledge of”)
Adjective
- not established by conditioning or learning
Adjective Satellite
- not well learned
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"
Adj
- ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
- Of a behavior: not learned; innate.
- Of information: that has not (yet) been learned; unknown.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English unlerned (“not taught, uneducated”). By surface analysis, un- (“not”) + learned (“educated”).
Synonyms
benighted, cimmerian, clueless, congenital, congenite, connate, connatural, foolish, genetous, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingenite, inherent, innate, innocent, lack-learning, lay, lewd, loreless, native, natural, nescient, oblivious, philistine, to the manner born, unaware, unconditioned, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, uninformed, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unlearn, unlearned, unlearnt, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, unwitting
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
unlearned is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordunlearned is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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