not taught or given information about how to do something
2. law
not having authorization or instructions from the client about what action to take
uninstructed in American English
(ˌunɪnˈstrʌktɪd)
adjective
1.
not instructed; uninformed; uneducated
2. (of a person acting in a representative capacity)
not furnished with orders on how to proceed or vote; uncommitted
uninstructed convention delegates
Derived forms
uninstructedly
adverb
Word origin
[1590–1600; un-1 + instruct + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: class, dummy, investment, squeeze, tubeun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment); -ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: loaded, registered, saturated, truncated, unsettled
Examples of 'uninstructed' in a sentence
uninstructed
Uninstructed participants performed fairly well (around 75% accuracy), apparently because they spontaneously used consistency and evasive answers.
Jaume Masip, Carmen Martínez, Iris Blandón-Gitlin, Nuria Sánchez, Carmen Herrero,Izaskun Ibabe 2018, 'Learning to Detect Deception from Evasive Answers and Inconsistencies across RepeatedInterviews: A Study with Lay Respondents and Police Officers', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02207/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)