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untutored

adjective un·tu·tored \ ˌən-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

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Examples of untutored in a Sentence

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

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First Known Use of untutored

1593

untutored Synonyms

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

Synonym Discussion of untutored

ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, untutored, unlearned mean not having knowledge. ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing.
    • an ignorant fool
    • ignorant of nuclear physics
illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write.
    • much of the population is still illiterate
unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading.
    • an allusion meaningless to the unlettered
untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization.
    • strange monuments built by an untutored people
unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects.
    • poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses

UNTUTORED Defined for English Language Learners

untutored

adjective

Definition of untutored for English Language Learners

  • : not having been formally taught something

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