UNPRACTISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpractised mean? 

• UNPRACTISED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPRACTISED has 1 sense:

1. not having had extensive practice

  Familiarity information: UNPRACTISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPRACTISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having had extensive practice

Synonyms:

unpracticed; unpractised; unversed

Similar:

inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)

 Context examples 

The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was always the saddest of the group, and even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a leap, swifter than his unpractised sight, and the lean, yellow body disappeared for a moment out of the field of his vision.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Pictures and prints which even my unpractised eyes could recognize as being of great price and rarity hung thick upon the walls.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Quite unpractised in such sort of note-writing, had there been time for scruples and fears as to style she would have felt them in abundance: but something must be instantly written; and with only one decided feeling, that of wishing not to appear to think anything really intended, she wrote thus, in great trembling both of spirits and hand—I am very much obliged to you, my dear Miss Crawford, for your kind congratulations, as far as they relate to my dearest William.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The dining-parlour was a noble room, suitable in its dimensions to a much larger drawing-room than the one in common use, and fitted up in a style of luxury and expense which was almost lost on the unpractised eye of Catherine, who saw little more than its spaciousness and the number of their attendants.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But she was so wholly unused to confer favours, except on the very poor, so unpractised in removing evils, or bestowing kindnesses among her equals, and so fearful of appearing to elevate herself as a great lady at home, that it took some time to determine that it would not be unbecoming in her to make such a present.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)