untutored

un·tu·tored

adjective \-ˈtü-tərd, -ˈtyü-\

Definition of UNTUTORED

1

a : having no formal learning or training

b : naive, unsophisticated

2

: not produced or developed by instruction : native <untutored shrewdness>

Examples of UNTUTORED

1. <to the untutored observer these works of art must seem strange indeed>

First Known Use of UNTUTORED

1593

Related to UNTUTORED

Synonyms

analphabetic, benighted, dark, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, ignorant

Antonyms

educated, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, schooled, well-informed, well-read

Related Words

functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable; artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured; callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve); unsophisticated; raw, unskilled, untrained; brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless; foolish, senseless, silly

Near Antonyms

brilliant, intelligent, smart; experienced, expert, trained; erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly; cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual; sophisticated; acquainted, aware, familiar

See Synonym Discussion at ignorant