uninstructed

adjective

un·​in·​struct·​ed ˌən-in-ˈstrək-təd 

: not educated or provided with knowledge or instructions : not instructed

a primer for the uninstructed reader

Even the most scientifically uninstructed among us—and I refer to myself—can read the account.

—Robert Penn Warren

… he was very shy, very reticent, and altogether uninstructed in the ordinary daily intercourse of man with man.

—Anthony Trollope

Synonyms

• analphabetic
• benighted
• dark
• ignorant
• illiterate
• nonliterate
• rude
• simple
• uneducated
• unlearned
• unlettered
• unread
• unschooled
• untaught
• untutored

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above