untrained

adjective

Definition of untrainednext
1
as in uncontrolled

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2
as in untutored

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Recent Examples of untrained The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday markers and ballpoint pen, bristle with energy. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026 In 2010, a man in Florida swerved to avoid an animal in the roadway, striking a guardrail maintained by untrained prison inmates. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 To the untrained eye, my room may appear to contain an unusual array of objects. — Shivali H. Patra, Mercury News, 8 July 2026 Officials again urged untrained civilians not to self-deploy into disaster zones. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for untrained
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untrained
  1. uncontrolled
  2. untutored
  3. feral
  4. unschooled
  5. untamed
  6. unprepared
  7. unskilled
  8. untaught
Adjective
  • The spacecraft started tumbling uncontrolled after launch, forcing NASA to abandon the mission.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
  • This uncontrolled melting widens the cavern and dangerously thins the structural salt pillars separating adjacent domes.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of uncontrolled
Adjective
  • No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of untutored
Adjective
  • After that feral beginning, the rest of the album is mostly contemplative, wistful, and understated, amid cascading guitars and various sounds that are at times acoustic or gently swirling.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
  • And while Shaq stalking pigs in the dark makes for entertaining content, knocking down feral hogs in Texas is also doing landowners a favor.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of feral
Adjective
  • When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.
    — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of unschooled
Adjective
  • Beyond the conventional routes lie some of the world’s most striking volcanic highlands, black-sand beaches, and untamed wilderness—landscapes that reward those willing to venture farther afield.
    — Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs.
    — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of untamed
Adjective
  • Leaders often feel unprepared to support them, impacting talent retention.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Too often, the forceful arguments of Rankine and her peers—and the electric anger of the George Floyd protests—were used by the opportunistic and aggrieved to justify abrupt changes to unprepared institutions.
    — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of unprepared
Adjective
  • Persona did not see economic viability in the unskilled labor approach, Radford says.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The jobs were broken down into around 200 management roles, 67 office or clerical roles, 67 professional, 534 skilled and 133 unskilled.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of unskilled
Adjective
  • Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
    — Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
Definition of untaught

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“Untrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untrained. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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