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Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear?
Answer for the clue "Ignorant, but not tight, do we hear? ", 8 letters:
untaught
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Word definitions for untaught in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "not instructed or educated," from un- (1) "not" + taught . Hence "spontaneous, natural" (mid-15c.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier cause to unlearn; "teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods" [also: untaught ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not taught
Usage examples of untaught.
Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice?
He shows us what it meant to put aside the inheritances and relationships of an immemorial order and to stand as a little child untaught, undisciplined and unperfect in the presence of the new.
Since, according to Wash-burn, young primates exhibit an untaught fear of snakes, it is easy to wonder whether the dream world does not point directly as well as indirectly to the ancient hostility between reptiles and mammals.
He was the most distinguished of a number of contemporary sachems who reigned over the Pequods, the Narragansetts, the Wampanoags, and the other eastern tribes at the time of the first settlement of New England--a band of native untaught heroes who made the most generous struggle of which human nature is capable, fighting to the last gasp in the cause of their country, without a hope of victory or a thought of renown.
The clamors of a multitude, untaught to disguise their sentiments, announced the first symptoms of resistance, and alarmed the timid and guilty minds of Lupicinus and Maximus.
The petty arts of coquetry were no farther from it than the numbness of the untaught girl.