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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

lacking formal training, teaching, or tutoring;

e.g. He is an untutored but fluent speaker of Japanese.

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Similar Words

Benighted

Dark

Ignorant

Illiterate

Rude

Uneducated

Unlearned

Unlettered

Unread

Unscholarly

Unschooled

Unseasoned

Untaught

Untrained

Untried

Would-be

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Opposite Words

Accomplished

Ace

Acquainted

Adept

Aware

Complete

Consummate

Cosmopolitan

Crack

Crackerjack

Cultivated

Cultured

Experienced

Expert

Familiar

Good

Great

Highbrow

Master

Masterful

Masterly

Polymath

Practiced

Professed

Proficient

Scholarly

Skillful

Sophisticated

Sure-handed

Versed

Veteran

Virtuoso

Well-read

Worldly

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Amateur

Artless

Backyard

Brainless

Callow

Dilettante

Dumb

Foolish

Green

Idiotic

Imbecile

Inexpert

Innocent

Jackleg

Lowbrow

Naive

Nonprofessional

Philistine

Raw

Senseless

Silly

Stupid

Sunday

Uncultivated

Uncultured

Unknowledgeable

Unprofessional

Unskilled

Unskillful

Unsophisticated

Untrained

Witless

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