uninstructed
/ʌnɪnˈstrʌktɪd/ · un·in·struct·ed
adjective
- Not instructed; lacking instruction or training. The uninstructed apprentices fumbled with the tools until the foreman showed them how.
- Uneducated; without formal schooling or learning. She felt a kinship with the uninstructed poor who had never attended school.
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Did you know? The word appears in a 1667 pamphlet by John Milton, where he describes the “uninstructed masses” as needing moral guidance.