Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not having been initiated. 2 Of a person, not having the special knowledge of a particular group.
WordNet
adj. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes" [syn: uninitiate]
Usage examples of "uninitiated".
Come to us, come and protect us against the surprise of the uninitiated, and this very instant I fulfil all the wishes of him I adore!
The uninitiated were deemed Profane, unworthy of public employment or private confidence, sometimes proscribed as Atheists, and certain of ever-lasting punishment beyond the grave.
And he thus learned the meaning of those symbols, which, to the uninitiated, were but a maze of unintelligible figures.
I shall not, therefore, attempt to speak of what is so admirable in them, lest by discovering them to the uninitiated, I should offend against the injunction not to give what is holy to the impure, nor cast pearls before such as cannot estimate their worth.
Germaine tell you that divulging the true state of a vampire to the uninitiated is viewed as a crime against the entire brotherhood?
They had been returned, pale with fatigue and smug with secrets, for the celebration that evening, and neither by threats nor by urging could they be compelled to tell the uninitiated girls what had occurred.
Dark-Hunter Code forbade him to reveal his powers to an uninitiated human.
The complicated diagrams and mystic texts that pass for Kabbalah today were often deliberately distorted in order to confuse the uninitiated eye.
He quite well knew that if he succeeded in obtaining aid he, being really uninitiated, would suffer for it.
It is said that he touched a waratah stem while it was still being influenced by the hand of the spirit, and he, being uninitiated, could not bear the contact and he paid for it with his life.
To impress women and children with an idea of the superhuman strength of the dragon deep grooves are cut in the trunks of trees and afterwards exhibited to the uninitiated as the marks made by the monster in tugging at the ropes which bound him to the trees.
Milt flinch, though to the uninitiated it would look like no more than the flicker of an eyelash.
Niall protested as a surge of power, uninitiated by Helva, sent him lurching into the door frame.
Owing to difficulty in comprehension by the uninitiated, the Tyneside dialect has not been adhered to.
Yet their session with closed doors was without the solemn formality that the uninitiated might have supposed to attend a grave deliberation upon a matter of guilt or innocence involving a question of life or death.