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Antonyms for untrained


Grammar : Adj
Spell : treyn
Phonetic Transcription : treɪn



Definition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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