untutored

untutored
adjective Date: 1593 1. a. having no formal learning or training b. naive, unsophisticated 2. not produced or developed by instruction ; native <
untutored shrewdness
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Synonyms: see ignorant

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  • untutored — index inexperienced Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • untutored — *ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, uneducated, untaught, unlearned Antonyms: tutored …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • untutored — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not formally taught …   English terms dictionary

  • untutored — [unto͞ot′ərd] adj. 1. not tutored or taught; uneducated 2. simple; naive; unsophisticated SYN. IGNORANT …   English World dictionary

  • untutored — [[t]ʌ̱ntju͟ːtə(r)d, AM tu͟ːt [/t]] ADJ If someone is untutored, they have not been formally trained to do something, although they may be quite skilled at it. [FORMAL] This untutored mathematician had an obsession with numbers... They had left… …   English dictionary

  • untutored — adj. untutored in * * * [ˌʌn tjuːtəd] untutored in …   Combinatory dictionary

  • untutored — un|tu|tored [ʌnˈtju:təd US ˈtu:tərd] adj formal not having been taught to do something to the untutored eye/ear/mind ▪ To the untutored ear, this music sounds as if it might have been written by Beethoven …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • untutored — adjective untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike …   Wiktionary

  • untutored intelligence — index instinct Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • untutored — /un tooh teuhrd, tyooh /, adj. 1. not tutored; untaught; uninstructed. 2. naive, ignorant, or unsophisticated. [1585 95; UN 1 + TUTOR + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

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