UNTRAINED Synonyms: 129 Similar and Opposite Words

untrained

adjective

Definition of untrained

as in uncontrolled

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Recent Examples of untrained To the untrained eye, my room may appear to contain an unusual array of objects. — Shivali H. Patra, Mercury News, 8 July 2026 Officials again urged untrained civilians not to self-deploy into disaster zones. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026 These dynamics result from untrained, basic human skills. — Leeza Carlone Steindorf, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 The earliest historians of midwifery argued that this was a progressive story of the triumph of expertise and science and reason over the superstitions and backward practices of untrained female midwives. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for untrained

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Adjective

The spacecraft started tumbling uncontrolled after launch, forcing NASA to abandon the mission.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 26 Aug. 2026
This uncontrolled melting widens the cavern and dangerously thins the structural salt pillars separating adjacent domes.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncontrolled

Adjective

After that feral beginning, the rest of the album is mostly contemplative, wistful, and understated, amid cascading guitars and various sounds that are at times acoustic or gently swirling.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
And while Shaq stalking pigs in the dark makes for entertaining content, knocking down feral hogs in Texas is also doing landowners a favor.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of feral

Adjective

When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.

— Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of unschooled

Adjective

Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte presents a world of conflicts, frictions between families, passions, and attachments—especially those of Catherine Earnshaw and the tortured Heathcliff—across an untamed landscape.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
But the preseason remains relatively unclaimed, and therefore untamed, territory.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of untamed

Adjective

Ariah’s unexpected arrival left Ross and Bellamy feeling slightly unprepared for their daughter.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Caught unprepared for chemical warfare and lacking standard-issue gas masks, Allied soldiers improvised by covering their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs or pieces of cloth drenched in water or urine.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of unprepared

Adjective

Persona did not see economic viability in the unskilled labor approach, Radford says.

— Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026
The jobs were broken down into around 200 management roles, 67 office or clerical roles, 67 professional, 534 skilled and 133 unskilled.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of unskilled

Adjective

Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.

— Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.

— Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024

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