Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not educated or instructed; having little or no formal schooling.
- adjective Not the result of training; natural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not schooled; not taught; not educated; illiterate; not developed by study.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
schooled ; not having been toschool . - adjective
inexperienced in something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking in schooling
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Examples
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It just seems really patronizing to treat Muslims like theyre some kind of unschooled savages who don’t have minds of their own.
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Original spirituality is unschooled and so simple that you may not believe it at first.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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I was talking to Peter Gray, over at Psychology Today, about being unschooled.
Kate Fridkis: Being Homeschooled Made Me Normal Kate Fridkis 2012
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And that cannot all be done with unschooled immigrants and high school dropouts. sharon
If we keep driving college costs ever higher… « Dating Jesus 2009
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My response is largely unschooled by the volumes of critical theory written about this subject; I can only describe what I see in New York City in 2011.
Lily Binns: What Is Queer Art? Lily Binns 2011
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I was talking to Peter Gray, over at Psychology Today, about being unschooled.
Kate Fridkis: Being Homeschooled Made Me Normal Kate Fridkis 2012
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This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than an unskilled father.
Why our kids need books at home « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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To secure our future, we need to make sure that the unschooled -- possibly home schooled -- advocates of the culture of anti-science articulate their ideas far from the halls of government where such advocacy undermines the public good.
Paul Stoller: Anti Anti-Science Paul Stoller 2011
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This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than an unskilled father.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Why our kids need books at home » Print 2010
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To secure our future, we need to make sure that the unschooled -- possibly home schooled -- advocates of the culture of anti-science articulate their ideas far from the halls of government where such advocacy undermines the public good.
Paul Stoller: Anti Anti-Science Paul Stoller 2011
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