uninstructed

American  

[uhn-in-struhk-tid] / ˌʌn ɪnˈstrʌk tɪd /

adjective

1. not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.

2. (of a person acting in a representative capacity) not furnished with orders on how to proceed or vote; uncommitted.

   uninstructed convention delegates.

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Other Word Forms

• uninstructedly adverb

Etymology

Origin of uninstructed

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + instruct + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Likewise, it’s also introducing a “Just workout” feature — meaning that any uninstructed activity can be recorded within the Peloton app.

From The Verge • May 13, 2022

“The uninstructed eye sees things the expert does not notice,” Steinbeck wrote in that first submission to Le Figaro.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2019

Such robust and uninstructed behavior represents the most convincing evidence yet of analogical reasoning in a non-primate animal, as only apes had spontaneously shown analogical reasoning after learning to match identical items.

From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2015

This far into the human story, only the historically uninstructed are startled by what they think are new permutations of evil.

From Washington Post

Untutored, un-tū′tord, adj. having had no tutor, uninstructed, raw.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various