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untaught

untaught adjective: not taught; uneducated.

Adjective

untaught (comparative more untaught, superlative most untaught)

  1. Not taught; uneducated.
    • My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
      For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
      But my learning is of another degreec. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
    • The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, page 58
  2. (not comparable) Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
    • What they used to teach here
      Now goes untaught.1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable

untaught meaning in Tamil and Urdu

untaught in Tamil

கல்வி கற்பிக்கப்பெறாத, படிப்பில்லாத, எழுத்தறிவற்ற

untaught in Urdu

فطری, جاہل, کورا

Forms of untaught

comparativemore untaught
superlativemost untaught

Origin of untaught

From Middle English untauȝt; equivalent to un- + taught.

Words formed from untaught

Questions about untaught

What does untaught mean?
Untaught means not taught; uneducated.
What is untaught in Tamil?
Untaught in Tamil is கல்வி கற்பிக்கப்பெறாத, படிப்பில்லாத, எழுத்தறிவற்ற. See Untaught meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is untaught?
Untaught is an adjective.

Words near untaught in the dictionary

  1. untastes
  2. untasting
  3. untasty
  4. untattered
  5. untattooed
  6. untaught
  7. untaughtness
  8. untaunted
  9. untaut
  10. untautened
  11. untautological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untaught (page history and authors); untaught (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); untaught (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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