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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uninformed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Careless or uninformed decisions during these huge storms can lead to loss of life and property.
▪ Many immigrants are uninformed about U.S. tax laws.
▪ The Vice-President gave the impression of being remarkably uninformed about South American affairs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then the settlers - settlers in all countries, as it happens - were particularly receptive to uninformed rumour.
▪ First, why are markets so short-sighted and uninformed?
▪ Inaccurate information from an uninformed physician can cause untold damage to the best educational program.
▪ It not only is found among the uninformed but, unfortunately, also has lingered within the medical profession.
▪ It would neither be the subject of uninformed scandal, nor slated to become a national historic landmark in our city.
▪ Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice.
▪ The weights are marked in braille with irregular bumps that to the uninformed would appear to be defects.
▪ There are commercial pressures, the changing face of the sport itself, its vulnerability to uninformed judgement from without.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uninformed

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of inform. Originally in reference to some specific matter or subject; general sense of "uneducated, ignorant" is recorded from 1640s.

Wiktionary
uninformed

a. not informed; ignorant

WordNet
uninformed

adj. not informed; lacking in knowledge or information; "the uniformed public" [ant: informed]

Usage examples of "uninformed".

Keenly intent upon his new conclusions, uninformed of the fact that Clifford Sulgate had been overheard and murdered by Bronden, The Shadow had carried his previous deductions farther and farther from the proper course.

It might have been possible for soldiers and diplomats to pose as innocents until the middle of the 1960s, but after that time, and especially after the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when serving veterans reported to their superior officers a number of major atrocities, nobody could reasonably claim to have been uninformed and of those who could, the least believable would be those who - far from the confusion of battle - read and discussed and approved the panoptic reports of the war that were delivered to Washington.

With such a minister, and such a parliament, let us suppose a case which I hope will never happen: a prince upon the throne, uninformed, ignorant, and unacquainted with the inclinations and true interest of his people, weak, capricious, transported with unbounded ambition, and possessed with insatiable warice.

It was only the uninitiated or uninformed touristlike Mosiahwho followed it to its heart.

I asked him whether he would consider reserving fresh hotel accom­modation in Brussels as a means of ending uninformed specu­lation, since you were personally distressed by reports that the German delegation had paid its bills and cancelled its bookings.

Below her, the apes had started their ceremonial dance, the ludicrous enough to the uninformed, but a dance that would strike terror, and did, to any normal jungle denizen.

Beyond the programming essential for their design function, their data bases appear to be singularly uninformed.

So the impressing and impressive detachment of the successful Singer, condescending to interpret the hazards of her profession to the eager but uninformed, was a role played very well by Borella.

Penniless, uninformed, ill at ease with their suddenly acquired partners, but strong in the Lord, the missionaries climbed aboard the brig Thetis, and Captain Janders cried, "Break out the sails!

They should realize that the values they are taught are the values of particular men, and often, unfortunately, of men who, long ago, were short-lived, ignorant, uninformed, unhealthy and quite possibly of unsound mind.

They're uninformed troublemakers, interferm' withand slowin' downthe natural chain of events that'll fulfill God's promise and make the world sweet as pie for eternity.

Either Strachey was uninformed, or Pocahontas was married to an Indian--a not violent presumption considering her age and the fact that war between Powhatan and the whites for some time had cut off intercourse between them--or Strachey referred to her marriage with Rolfe, whom he calls by mistake Kocoum.