unlearned
adjective
Synonyms
- analphabetic
- benighted
- dark
- ignorant
- illiterate
- nonliterate
- rude
- simple
- uneducated
- uninstructed
- unlettered
- unread
- unschooled
- untaught
- untutored
Example Sentences
Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022 And, today, the Biden Administration is learning that lessons from the 2014 Red Hill fuel leak went unlearned. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021 The hegemony that the Mexican identity has over how a Latino should look and be in Phoenix — and in the U.S. — forces this kind of unlearned environment for Salvadorans and other Latinos. AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2021 George Floyd, a blank piece of paper, unlearned characters in the Bible. Dallas News, 4 May 2021 And yet, the lessons inherent in those works remain unlearned. Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020 Wary skeptics warned of a trap, born from lessons that went unlearned in 2016’s earned media giveaway to the then-Republican nominee. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020 The scion of a respected family of Shiite scholars, he was once derided as unlearned and brutish by fellow Shiite public figures. Washington Post, 15 May 2018 The scion of a respected family of Shiite scholars, he was once derided as unlearned and brutish by fellow Shiite public figures. Washington Post, 15 May 2018 See More Word History
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
unlearned
adjective
unlearned 1 of 2
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- ignorant
- untaught
- uninstructed
- inexperienced
- uneducated
- untutored
- unschooled
- illiterate
- benighted
- dark
- unlettered
- nonliterate
- simple
- unread
- innocent
- naive
- rude
- foolish
- analphabetic
- semiliterate
- uncultured
- unknowledgeable
- uncultivated
- callow
- functionally illiterate
- stupid
- unsophisticated
- unskilled
- innumerate
- dumb
- artless
- untrained
- imbecile
- naïve
- philistine
- lowbrow
- idiotic
- green
- witless
- moronic
- silly
- brainless
- senseless
- idiotical
- raw
- imbecilic
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- educated
- literate
- knowledgeable
- learned
- intelligent
- schooled
- experienced
- lettered
- expert
- trained
- brilliant
- smart
- intellectual
- scholarly
- erudite
- well-informed
- cultured
- well-read
- cultivated
- aware
- acquainted
- sophisticated
- familiar
- highbrow
- polymathic
- polymath
- polyhistoric
unlearned
2 of 2verb
Synonyms & Similar Words
- forgot
- lost
- disremembered
- missed
- ignored
- disregarded
- misremembered
- neglected
- blanked
- passed over
- slighted
- overlooked
- overpassed
- slurred (over)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- remembered
- recollected
- recalled
- thought (of)
- reminisced (about)
- reminded
- minded
- flashed back (to)
- hearkened back (to)
- harked back (to)
- harkened back (to)
- harkened back (to)
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of unlearned are ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, and untutored. While all these words mean "not having knowledge," unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects.
The synonyms ignorant and unlearned are sometimes interchangeable, but ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing.
Although the words illiterate and unlearned have much in common, illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write.
While the synonyms unlettered and unlearned are close in meaning, unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading.
The words untutored and unlearned can be used in similar contexts, but untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization.