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untaught /ʌnˈtɔːt /adjective1Not having been taught or educated: she is totally untaught and will not listen...- An untaught genius (the obscure expressionist sources that critics find for his films are just nonsense), he was betrayed by the art form that he helped to revolutionise.
- This call will be joined by the parents and others if children are being left untaught and unsupervised while teachers go about their personal affairs.
- It is human nature, for the untaught and unintelligent, to abuse power when they get the chance.
1.1Not acquired by teaching; natural or spontaneous: by untaught instinct they know that scent means food...- In a regular column for the BMJ he articulated many of the untaught and unappreciated immeasurables of general practice.
- You absorb the mostly unwritten and untaught rules for what to call people as you exit toddlerhood and proceed toward adulthood.
- We presumed only that they would want students to understand their fields in depth and develop an ability to use ideas in new, untaught contexts.
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