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[ UK /ʌnlˈɜːnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not established by conditioning or learning
    an unconditioned reflex
  2. not well learned
  3. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
    an ignorant man
    an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
    exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
    nescient of contemporary literature

How To Use unlearned In A Sentence

  • Though the last is listed in Welsh's bibliography, its lessons appear unlearned.
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
  • Although the mechanisms which permit modification of behavior are inherited, learned behavior does not emerge from, and is not an extension of, the unlearned behavior of the individual.
  • He has all the scatophagous faults of the unlearned. Orbis quintus
  • So angry I could hardly speak, I forced myself to calm for a moment as I danced away with her in my newly-taught but unlearned club-footed manner.
  • an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
  • Critics warn that some lessons of past engineering fiascos remained unlearned.
  • There the Latinist and sophister and every unlearned writer tries the fitness of his pen, a practice that we have frequently seen injuring the usefulness and value of the most beautiful books. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • That what you call magical or spiritual is only methods unlearned. Think Progress » House passes stem cell research bill.
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