adjective
definition
Not taught; uneducated.
definition
Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
Examples of untaught in a Sentence
Her untaught, unsatisfied hands destroy whatever they touch because they do not know what else to do with things.
The acquiring of speech by untaught deaf children is always slow and often painful.
The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses.
Skill in modern laboratory work is as far out of the reach of the untaught as performance on a musical instrument.
Untaught by experience, he resumed his course of selfish tyranny over Christians and heathen alike, and raised the irritation of the populace to such a pitch that when, on the accession of Julian, his downfall was proclaimed and he was committed to prison, they dragged him thence and killed him, finally casting his body into the sea (24th of December 361).
Untaught by Maximilian Emmanuel's experience, his son, Charles Albert (1726-1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige and power of his house.
We may fairly say that natural and untaught people had more of the just intuition that was needed than learned folk trained in the schools.
The animism common alike to the untaught Huns and to their Hindu conquerors, but condemned in early Buddhism, was allowed to revive.