🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 42855 COCA: 32974

unlearned

adjective

un·​learned
for senses 1 & 2
ˌən-ˈlər-nəd How to pronounce unlearned (audio)
for sense 3
-ˈlərnd How to pronounce unlearned (audio)
1
: possessing inadequate learning or education
especially : deficient in scholarly attainments
2
: characterized by or revealing ignorance
3
: not gained by study or training
Choose the Right Synonym for unlearned

ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, untutored, unlearned mean not having knowledge.

ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing.

an ignorant fool
ignorant of nuclear physics

illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write.

much of the population is still illiterate

unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading.

an allusion meaningless to the unlettered

untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization.

strange monuments built by an untutored people

unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects.

poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses

Example Sentences

although the people of the farming community were largely an unlearned lot, they wanted an advanced education for their children
Recent Examples on the Web Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Cannes, Loznitsa explained why the unlearned lessons of the past always come back to haunt us. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022 And, today, the Biden Administration is learning that lessons from the 2014 Red Hill fuel leak went unlearned. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021 The hegemony that the Mexican identity has over how a Latino should look and be in Phoenix — and in the U.S. — forces this kind of unlearned environment for Salvadorans and other Latinos. AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2021 George Floyd, a blank piece of paper, unlearned characters in the Bible. Dallas News, 4 May 2021 And yet, the lessons inherent in those works remain unlearned. Michael Bennett, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020 Wary skeptics warned of a trap, born from lessons that went unlearned in 2016’s earned media giveaway to the then-Republican nominee. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020 The scion of a respected family of Shiite scholars, he was once derided as unlearned and brutish by fellow Shiite public figures. Washington Post, 15 May 2018 The scion of a respected family of Shiite scholars, he was once derided as unlearned and brutish by fellow Shiite public figures. Washington Post, 15 May 2018 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of unlearned was in the 14th century

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime