Synonyms of untaught

untaught

adjective

ˌən-ˈtȯt 

as in ignorant

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books

an untaught artist whose primitive paintings are now prized by collectors

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ignorant
• untutored
• unlearned
• inexperienced
• uneducated
• uninstructed
• unschooled
• dark
• benighted
• illiterate
• nonliterate
• simple
• unlettered
• innocent
• unread
• rude
• naive
• uncultured
• foolish
• uncultivated
• unsophisticated
• artless
• analphabetic
• unskilled
• untrained
• stupid
• dumb
• callow
• unknowledgeable
• functionally illiterate
• semiliterate
• idiotic
• green
• imbecile
• innumerate
• moronic
• witless
• lowbrow
• silly
• brainless
• philistine
• senseless
• raw

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• educated
• literate
• knowledgeable
• intelligent
• brilliant
• experienced
• expert
• smart
• trained
• lettered
• learned
• intellectual
• schooled
• well-informed
• well-read
• erudite
• scholarly
• cultured
• cultivated
• familiar
• sophisticated
• acquainted
• aware
• highbrow
• polymath
• polyhistoric

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of untaught

In the year 2024/25, nearly 10% of teaching hours in public secondary education went untaught, according to data from the education ministry. — Will Barker, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026

By the early sixties, the romance of the untaught or naïve artist was really catching. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024

Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized. — Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024

With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life. — David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023

Being untaught in our schools, as so much of our history has been. — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2022

Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light. — Deepti Hajela, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2021

But where untaught formlessness is the ideal, the formative character of such an enterprise is suspect, a threat to the authentic, untutored self. — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020