unlearned

comparative more unlearned · superlative most unlearned · alternative unlearnt

1. ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.

   How much do I know / To talk out of turn / You might say that I'm young / You might say I'm unlearned / But there's one thing I know / Though I'm younger than you / Even Jesus would never / Forgive what you do

   1963, “Masters of War” (track 3, side 1), in Bob Dylan (lyrics), (traditional)/Jean Ritchie (music), The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, performed by Bob Dylan

   Synonyms: benighted, cimmerian, clueless, foolish, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, innocent · Antonyms: learned

comparative more unlearned · superlative most unlearned · alternative unlearnt

1. Of a behavior: not learned; innate.

   Synonyms: inborn, inherent, connate, connatural, congenital, congenite, genetous, inborn

2. Of information: that has not (yet) been learned; unknown.

   Did she ever return? No, she never returned. Her fate is yet unlearned Though for years and years there were fond ones watching For the ship that never returned.

   1865, Henry Clay Work, “The Ship That Never Returned”

alternative unlearnt

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unlearn (“discard the knowledge of”)