Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

untutored

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: un-tu-tored
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge

Example Sentences

"To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike."
"The eye wandered from object to object, and rested upon none; neither the “Grotesques” of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt."
""Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers.""

Etymology

From un- + tutored.

Derived Forms

untutoredly untutoredness

Synonyms

unschooled untaught

Questions

What does untutored mean?: untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge
Where does untutored come from?: From un- + tutored.

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