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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNTU'TORED, a. Uninstructed; untaught; as untutored infancy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking in schooling; "untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient"; "an untutored genius"; "uneducated children" [syn: unschooled, untaught, untutored]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1593 1. a. having no formal learning or training b. naive, unsophisticated 2. not produced or developed by instruction ; native <untutored shrewdness> Synonyms: see ignorant

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. uneducated, untaught.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone is untutored, they have not been formally trained to do something, although they may be quite skilled at it. (FORMAL) This untutored mathematician had an obsession with numbers... They had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Uninstructed, uneducated, untaught, undisciplined, inexperienced, uninitiated, undrilled, ignorant. 2. Artless, natural, simple, unsophisticated.

Moby Thesaurus

Gothic, Philistine, amateurish, artless, barbarous, benighted, bookless, deceived, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disentangle, empty-headed, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, ingenuous, know-nothing, led astray, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, naive, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, semiskilled, simple, unaccomplished, unaffected, unartificial, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unbusinesslike, uncoached, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unendowed, unerudite, unfinished, ungifted, unguided, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unpolished, unprepared, unprimed, unprofessional, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unscramble, unskilled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unstudious, untalented, untangle, untaught, untie, untrained, untwine