unschooled

[ uhn-skoold ]

adjective

1. not schooled, school, taught, or trained:

   Though unschooled, he had a grasp of the subject.

2. not acquired or artificial; natural:

   an unschooled talent.

unschooled

/ ʌnˈskuːld /

adjective

1. having received no training or schooling
2. spontaneous; natural

   unschooled talent

Word History and Origins

Origin of unschooled¹

First recorded in 1580–90; un- ¹ + school ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

It’s easy to feel daunted, perhaps a little unschooled, in Barbour’s presence.

From Nautilus

The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed.

From Time

Even the chefs—the younger, more intriguing ones, at least—seemed to be unschooled, unofficial, improvisational.

From The Daily Beast

Marie Duplessis arrived in Paris a penniless, unschooled young teenager.

From The Daily Beast

She drew in a breath; there was a thin short voice, hardly voice, as when one of the unschooled minor feelings has been bruised.

From Project Gutenberg

Does this innovation make good an ethical want in the rough and unschooled original?

From Project Gutenberg

I was to learn that she blushed easily; I did not know it then; but it presently amused me to find her, after all, so unschooled.

From Project Gutenberg

And for the better to desert her--poor, helpless, unschooled girl--could only operate to push her toward the worse.

From Project Gutenberg

These are the leaders of the unschooled thousands counted among the preachers of the gospel.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• illiterate
• uneducated