Definition of uninstructed
: 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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The first known use of uninstructed was in 1598
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