UNTAUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untaught mean? 

• UNTAUGHT (adjective)
  The adjective UNTAUGHT has 1 sense:

1. lacking in schooling

  Familiarity information: UNTAUGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTAUGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking in schooling

Synonyms:

unschooled; untaught; untutored

Context example:

uneducated children

Similar:

uneducated (not having a good education)

 Context examples 

You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny soon learnt how unnecessary had been her fears of a removal; and her spontaneous, untaught felicity on the discovery, conveyed some consolation to Edmund for his disappointment in what he had expected to be so essentially serviceable to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)