Inexpert

Usage examples of untrained.

A local physician, untrained as a surgeon, created an operating table by propping a door across two pews, then sawed limbs off men as though he were pruning trees.

To the untrained eye, those dark masts were a confusion of bristling antennae combined with a gray, central spherical radome and two six foot microwave dishes on an ominous, boxlike, blank-walled forward superstructure.

Your untrained, undrilled, undisciplined Chouans are merely auxiliaries.

Their losses in battle were very small, their skill as bushmen and riflemen was beyond question, but their officers were untrained and unsupplied, even as ours are, and what arrangements they were able to make broke down appallingly.

These could be untrained bandits, or they might lack the light plastic antipersonnel mines, or they could be of the Pursuit.

But she had found Davin, too, sick of the fever, and he had welcomed her coming-his apprentice was not yet skilled enough to go near the untrained birds, though he was good enough to feed the others and clean the mews-and so he had ordered Romilly to release them both.

Untrained in the art of subtlety, she was all loud lipstick, four-inch white patent heels, and big glittery hoops of phony gold hanging from each juicy earlobe.

A well-trained molecular biologist will see many things with a microscope that are not seen with the untrained eye, and a person who is well versed in a sophisticated theory of mental phenomena may be able to observe introspectively many things that would otherwise be hidden.

It is also possible for many untrained minds acting together to make fuzzy, ill-defined thought forms that can be picked up the same way, such as UFOs and sightings of the Devil.

Few people realize just how much damage even an untrained dog can do to a man, and how quickly.

B C, and that blurred and distorted by the unfocussed lenses of an untrained mind.

While untrained introspection is like unrefined gold ore, neuroscientific understanding of the origins, nature, and causal efficacy of consciousness is like an undated check.

For the meditatively untrained mind, however, due to its extreme brevity, no single moment of awareness has the capacity of ascertaining anything.

Even if we can send untrained people, undetected, we still do not know the most vital point: Will the exchange hold when the Beam collapses?

What if he were to become permanently mingled with this crazy untrained alien mind?