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UNVERSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unversed mean?
• UNVERSED (adjective)
The adjective UNVERSED has 1 sense:
1. not having had extensive practice
Familiarity information: UNVERSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having had extensive practice
Synonyms:
unpracticed; unpractised; unversed
Similar:
inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)
Context examples
There had been warning, but White Fang was unversed in such things and did not understand the packing of a grip.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They were indeed excellent in two sciences for which I have great esteem, and wherein I am not unversed; but, at the same time, so abstracted and involved in speculation, that I never met with such disagreeable companions.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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