unlearned
/ʌn'lə:nid/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Lacking knowledge or education; not well-educated: Describes a person or group that has not acquired formal education or extensive knowledge, often implying simplicity or lack of sophistication.
- Not acquired through study or experience; innate: Describes a behavior, reflex, or quality that is natural and not learned from conditioning or experience.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The villagers were kind but unlearned, with little access to formal schooling.
- An unlearned reflex, like blinking when something approaches the eye, is present from birth.
Advanced Usage
- "The unlearned masses": A phrase (sometimes pejorative) referring to the general population lacking formal education.
- The pamphlet was written simply to be understood by the unlearned masses.
- Used in contrast with "learned" to highlight a lack of scholarly knowledge.
- His arguments were dismissed by the learned professors as the ramblings of an unlearned man.
Variants and Related Words
- Unlearn (verb): To discard or forget something that has been learned.
- He had to unlearn his bad habits.
- Learned (adjective): Having acquired much knowledge through study.
- A learned scholar.
Synonyms
- Ignorant: Lacking knowledge or awareness.
- Uneducated: Not having received an education.
- Unlettered: Illiterate; unable to read or write.
- Nescient: Lacking knowledge; ignorant.
Antonyms
- Learned: Erudite, scholarly.
- Educated: Having been taught.
- Knowledgeable: Well-informed.
Related Phrases
- Unlearned behavior: Instinctive or innate behavior not derived from experience.
- The fear of loud noises is often an unlearned behavior in infants.
Adjective
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- an ignorant man
- nescient of contemporary literature
- an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
- exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
- not well learned
- not established by conditioning or learning
- an unconditioned reflex