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unlearned

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un·learn·ed  (n-lûrnd)
adj.
1. Not educated; ignorant or illiterate.
2. Not skilled or versed in a specified discipline.
3. (-lûrnd) Not acquired by training or studying: an unlearned response.
unlearned [ʌnˈlɜːnɪd]
adj
ignorant or untaught
unlearnedly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unlearnedunlearned - not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"
innate, unconditioned
2.unlearnedunlearned - not well learned                    
unscholarly - not scholarly
3.unlearned - uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
ignorant, nescient, unlettered
uneducated - not having a good education
Translations
unlearned [ˈʌnˈlɜːnɪd] ADJ → indocto, ignorante


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Only among the lowly, the unlearned, and the poor was English heard.
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It is in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain; in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.
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