US /ʌnˈlɜrnɪd/ UK /ʌnˈlɜːnɪd/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    lacking education or knowledge; not acquired by training

    The unlearned peasant nonetheless grasped the gist at once.

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Synonyms
1 adj · lacking education or... ignorantuneducatedilliterateuntaughtuntutoreduninstructed
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Etymology

From un- ('not') + learned, past participle of learn, from Old English leornian ('to acquire knowledge'), related to lǣran ('to teach') and lāst ('track').

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