untutored

[ uhn-too-terd, -tyoo- ]

adjective

1. not tutored; untaught; uninstructed.
2. naive, ignorant, or unsophisticated.

untutored

/ ʌnˈtjuːtəd /

adjective

1. without formal instruction or education
2. lacking sophistication or refinement

Word History and Origins

Origin of untutored¹

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + tutor + -ed ²

Example Sentences

He also highlighted to his students Plato’s belief in the necessity of “the noble lie,” the veneer of comforting falsehoods with which wise rulers must placate the untutored masses while going about the serious business of exercising power.

From Salon

He sees them as an upmarket substitute for the Trump phenomenon, "untutored and ill-led" as it was.

From Salon

One of my own favorite poets is Campbell McGrath, whose “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems” tumbles out of the earbuds in the author’s untutored enthusiastic telling, a freewheeling ramble through American appetites and satisfactions, too much and never quite enough, searching and striving, lost and found.

From Seattle Times

Untutored except by art magazines, YouTube and the writings of personal gods — sculptor Louise Bourgeois and painter Agnes Martin — she teaches herself: “I was just trying to master the nature of a box. Everything I made was flat and six-sided.”

From Washington Post

This led some people to dismiss him as a brash, untutored interloper.

From New York Times

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