uninstructed

adjective

un·in·struct·ed | \ ˌən-in-ˈstrək-təd

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: 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

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