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UNVERSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unversed mean? 

UNVERSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNVERSED has 1 sense:

1. not having had extensive practiceplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNVERSED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having had extensive practice

Synonyms:

unpracticed; unpractised; unversed

Similar:

inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)


 Context examples 


There had been warning, but White Fang was unversed in such things and did not understand the packing of a grip.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They were indeed excellent in two sciences for which I have great esteem, and wherein I am not unversed; but, at the same time, so abstracted and involved in speculation, that I never met with such disagreeable companions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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