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untaught

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

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

  1. Not taught; uneducated.

    My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree

    The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.

  2. Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.

    What they used to teach here Now goes untaught.