untutored

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Thân thiện

An untutored child learns to read by looking at picture books.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Lacking formal education or instruction: Describes a person who has not received systematic teaching or training, often implying a lack of knowledge or refinement in a particular area.
   • Natural, unschooled: Can describe a natural ability, talent, or quality that exists without formal training or cultivation.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The untutored artist created works of raw emotional power. (The artist, lacking formal training, created works of raw emotional power.)
  • His untutored remarks revealed a lack of understanding of the subject. (His remarks, made without formal knowledge, revealed a lack of understanding.)
  • She possessed an untutored genius for mathematics. (She possessed a natural, unschooled genius for mathematics.)

Advanced Usage

• "Untutored eye/ear": Used to describe the perspective of someone without specialized training or knowledge in a field.
  • To the untutored eye, the two paintings looked identical. (To the eye of someone without training, the two paintings looked identical.)

Variants and Related Words

• Uneducated (adj): Lacking education; not having attended school or been taught. (Often broader than .)
• Unschooled (adj): Not educated or trained; can also mean natural or instinctive.
• Unlearned (adj): Not having acquired knowledge through study; uneducated. (Can also mean not scholarly.)
• Naive (adj): Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgment; often implies innocence or simplicity.

Synonyms

• Uninstructed: Not taught or educated.
• Ignorant: Lacking knowledge or awareness in general.
• Self-taught: Having acquired knowledge or skill on one's own initiative rather than through formal instruction. (This can be a more positive synonym in some contexts.)

Antonyms

• Educated: Having been educated.
• Tutored: Having received instruction, especially private tuition.
• Trained: Having been taught a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction.
• Cultivated: Refined and well-educated.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "In its untutored state": In its natural, unrefined, or original condition.
  • The land remained in its untutored state, wild and beautiful. (The land remained in its natural, uncultivated state.)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. lacking in schooling
   • untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient
   • an untutored genius
   • uneducated children

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unschooled
• untaught