unschooledadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈskuːld/, U.S. /ˌənˈskuld/ 1.
a. Uneducated, untaught.
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society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > not educated
untowenc1000
unnurtured1548
unlessonedc1555
unkent1570
unexercised1577
uneducate?1592
unlectured1593
unschooled1593
untutored1594
unconfirmed1598
uneducated1598
unedifieda1625
indoct1677
uncultivated1685
unformed1711
unsuppled1761
teachless1819
uninaugurated1823
Philistinian1931
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 205 They were..poore, simple, vnschooled altogether and vnlettered men.
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 895 Mine vnschooled and vnskilfull Muse.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 15 In art unschool'd; each veteran rule he priz'd.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. vi. 222 He especially warns Dionysius against talking about these matters to unschooled men.
1873 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 222 The vulgar unschooled mind.
b. spec. Not educated at school; not made to attend school. Also absol.
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society > education > [adjective] > educated or taught > not educated > not educated at school
unschooled1841
1841 R. W. Emerson Hist. in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 41 The Indian, the child, and the unschooled farmer's boy.
1847 Eng. Rev. No. ii. 18 There were only 21,609 children unschooled.
1898 Daily News 14 Oct. 4/7 It is the unschooled that make the gaolbirds.
2.
a. Untrained, undisciplined.
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society > education > teaching > training > [adjective] > untrained or undisciplined
undisciplineda1382
unschooled1589
uncultivated1796
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii From such entercourse of excuse, let my vnschooled indignities, conuert themselues to your courtesie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 97 It showes..a minde impatient An vnderstanding simple and vnschoold. View more context for this quotation
1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iv. 69 Any power, that her..experience might give her over the errors of so unschooled a husband.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 345 A panic-struck mob, unschooled by discipline or experience.
1871 M. E. Braddon Lovels iii. 41 A generous and somewhat lofty nature, perhaps, but unschooled and unchastened as yet.
b. Not affected or made artificial by education; natural, spontaneous.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > not contrived or artificial
unartificial1603
artless1622
unarted1628
inartificial1656
unartful1670
unaffected1712
unstrained1748
unmannered1804
unschooled1815
wilding1884
1815 T. Moore Epil. to Lady Dacre's Ina 43 When lovely Woman, all unschool'd and wild, Blush'd without art.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iii. 100 The artless, unschooled perception of a child.
1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 31 The unschooled promptings of his best desire.
3. Not provided with a school.
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society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] > not provided with a school
unschooled1872
1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice II. ii. 28 A dingy village, undrained and unschooled.
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