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Synonyms for unlearned

lacking the requisite scholarship or instruction

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Synonyms for unlearned

not established by conditioning or learning

not well learned

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uneducated in general

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Yet innate, unlearned mouse song could have value for genetic studies of behavior, researchers in Japan suggest online March 9 in PLoS ONE.
While depression continues to be an epidemic, O'Connor is hopeful because neuroscience has confirmed that the "skills of depression" can be unlearned and replaced by new neural pathways.
As such, they have been reinvented as literature and poetry and should be unlearned. Tomlinson argues that the cantares mexicanos can best be understood through metonymy, the topic of chapter 2.
Children have the ability to let everything that doesn't satisfy their quest drop away; in essence, to become unlearned. As adults, we're trained away from this precious attitude by a culture suspicious of the joy of the present moment and sacrificial toward the promise of a more learned future.
In the marathon course she had unlearned her deeply-held ideas about how to see and paint, relearned these concepts as understood by her teacher, and in doing so learned new strategies for painting.
Yale University scientists said in Nature journal: "Our ability to evaluate people is universal and unlearned."
Your "Katrina: Unlearned Lessons" [September/October] is truly excellent and educational.
"The San Francisco calamity has demonstrated that the lessons from the Chicago and Baltimore fires are still unlearned; that the same faults in construction have continued and can only be stopped by the enactment and enforcement of strict building laws compelling an observance of things essential in fire-proof construction," Adams said in his speech, according to Best's Review.
Among the topics covered in the essays are the Seattle General Strike of 1919, class conflict in early American history, the unlearned lessons of the Hiroshima bomb, criticism of the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Henry David Thoreau and civil disobedience, the late Catholic priest and antiwar activist Philip Berrigan, and immigration.
Violence is a learned behavior, says CeaseFire founder Gary Slutkin, M.D., so it can be unlearned. Part of unlearning requires making the dog/family connection, which is key to ending the abuse, says the Rev.
Hence, new crime-control strategies began to spring up; old ineffective ways of doing business began to be "unlearned." (16)
Many of your readers for the most part are unconcerned, unlearned, naive and who almost never read the editorial pages of a metropolitan daily newspaper.
More radiant than precious stones." The Catholic Information Network notice (www.cin.org/saints/hilary.html) offers a judicious compromise: "His style is lofty and noble, beautified with rhetorical ornaments and figures, but somewhat studied; and the length of his periods makes him sometimes obscure to the unlearned." Hilary himself (Trinity 4:25, 8:1) demanded that bishops be eloquent, not meretriciously but to assist audiences' understanding.
We learn about the world and our place in it from the moment we're conceived, and it's virtually guaranteed that some of those lessons will have to be unlearned if we are going to lead liberated lives.