Meanings
- not comparableuntrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge
To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike.
2 more examples
The eye wandered from object to object, and rested upon none; neither the “Grotesques” of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt.
1834 January, [Edgar Allan Poe], “The Visionary”, in The Lady’s Book, page 41, column 2"Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelacking in schooling
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishtutored
- Englishuntutored
Cite this entry
untutored. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untutored
“untutored.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untutored. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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