UNTAUGHT Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

untaught

adjective

ˌən-ˈtȯt

Definition of untaught

as in ignorant

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books an untaught artist whose primitive paintings are now prized by collectors

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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 | [email protected], 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

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ignorant

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Some people in the White House treated Jackie as a cipher, ignorant of almost everything happening.

— Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
And in a world increasingly populated by people who are absolutely certain that everyone who disagrees with them is either ignorant or immoral, our universities could use considerably more of all three.

— Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

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