Synonyms for untrained
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : treyn |
| Phonetic Transcription : treɪn |
Top 10 synonyms for untrained Other synonyms for the word untrained
Définition of untrained
Origin :- early 14c., "a drawing out, delay," later "trailing part of a skirt" (mid-15c.), also "retinue, procession" (mid-15c.), from Old French train (fem. traine), from trainer "to pull, draw," from Vulgar Latin *traginare, extended from *tragere "to pull," back-formation from tractus, past participle of Latin trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)).
- Train of thought first attested 1650s. The railroad sense is recorded from 1820 (publication year, dated 1816), from notion of a "train" of wagons or carriages pulled by a mechanical engine.
- adj inexperienced
- adj not trained
- He is untrained, inept, but he will fill the place and draw the pay.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- Josie was lingering on the doorstep in an agony of untrained coquetry.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Thus a good memory for details may be a sign of an untrained mind.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- It was untrained, I suppose, compared to the woman graduate of to-day.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- But they are all untrained in arms; they are rustics, not soldiers.
- Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
- She was like an untrained, untutored child, despite her years, she thought.
- Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey
- At first we had some exciting times with our young and untrained horses.
- Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
- What a terrible ordeal to a mind so untrained—to a temper so unbridled!
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- None of the girls he knew pleased his fancy, untrained though that fancy might be.
- Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
- In cold words you feel that no untrained lunk has a right to have an idea.
- Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
Antonyms for untrained
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