unlearned (root: unlearn)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=learned

CIDE DICTIONARY

unlearned, a. [Pref. un- + learned.].

•  Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not gained by study; not known.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unlearned, adj. not well educated; untaught, ignorant.

Derivative

unlearnedly adv.

unlearned, adj. (also unlearnt) that has not been learnt.

THESAURUS

unlearned

Gothic, Philistine, automatic, barbarous, bookless, deceived, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, impulsive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, led astray, libidinal, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, natural, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, spontaneous, subliminal, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unconscious, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored

ROGET THESAURUS

unlearned

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.