UNTRAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untrained mean? 

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

1. not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTRAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training

Context example:

young minds untrained in the habit of concentration

Similar:

naive; primitive (of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style)

undisciplined (not subjected to discipline)

Antonym:

trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

But to the untrained eye, it can appear similar to the Death cap mushroom A. phalloides.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

One obvious step toward making these chemical analysis techniques more widely available would be to find a means to enable even untrained personnel to conduct them, in any location, in the proximity of the sample to be analysed, delivering performance that would ensure the results of the measurements were useful.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)