UNSTUDIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unstudied mean? 

• UNSTUDIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSTUDIED has 2 senses:

1. not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu

2. lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field

  Familiarity information: UNSTUDIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSTUDIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu

Synonyms:

uncontrived; unstudied

Context example:

simple unstudied charm

Similar:

candid (informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared)

Also:

unaffected (free of artificiality; sincere and genuine)

Antonym:

studied (produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field

Context example:

is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters

Similar:

uneducated (not having a good education)

 Context examples 

That's as much as drought or flooding, or any single pest or disease, but ozone is a relatively unstudied component of yield loss, according to the biologists.

(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)

Their gentleness, their genuine attention to other people, and their manly unstudied simplicity is much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness—often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

William and Fanny soon shewed themselves; and Sir Thomas had the pleasure of receiving, in his protege, certainly a very different person from the one he had equipped seven years ago, but a young man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but feeling and respectful manners, and such as confirmed him his friend.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)