untutored

English

Etymology

From un- ‎ tutored.

Adjective

untutored (not comparable)

1. untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge

   To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike.

   • 1834 January, [Edgar Allan Poe], “The Visionary”, in The Lady’s Book, page 41, column 2:

     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.

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42:

     "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."

Anagrams

• outturned, turned out