Etymology

unlearned

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Today it means: ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained. Full definition →

Middle English unlerned
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unlearned · adjective1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromunlerned“not taught, uneducated”
  2. English todayunlearned

From Middle English unlerned (“not taught, uneducated”). By surface analysis, un- (“not”) + learned (“educated”).

unlearned · adjective2

From un- (“not”) + learned (“studied”), past participle of learn.

unlearned · verb3

  1. Middle English · inherited fromunlernyd“obliterated from memory, forgotten”
  2. English todayunlearned

From Middle English unlernyd (“obliterated from memory, forgotten”), equivalent to unlearn + -ed.

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