unbred

[ uhn-bred ]

adjective

1. not taught or trained.
2. not bred breed or mated, as a stock animal; not yet bred: breed:

   An unbred cow gives no milk.

unbred

/ ʌnˈbrɛd /

adjective

1. a less common word for ill-bred
2. not taught or instructed
3. obsolete.
   not born

Word History and Origins

Origin of unbred¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + bred

Example Sentences

Something for adults: Laugh knowingly during the tour when you learn that a boar is a male pig, a gilt is an unbred female pig and a sow is a female pig who has had her first litter — and that two gilts at Whitehall are named Miss Money Piggy and Piggy Galore because of their relationship with one Roger Boar.

From Washington Post

He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred, as Laban's share.

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncircumscribed by prudent rules, Or precepts of expensive schools; Abused at home, abroad despised, Unbred, unletter'd, unadvised; The headstrong course of life begun, What comfort from thy darling son?

From Project Gutenberg

Not moral worth, nor learning, nor wealth, nor all three combined, can unaided make a gentleman, for with all three a man might be uneducated—i. e., coarse, unbred, unschooled in those things which alone make men welcome in the society of the refined.

From Project Gutenberg

Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived; So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived: For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred,— Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead.

From Project Gutenberg