Adjective: unlearnt
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unlearnt |
| Superlative | most unlearnt |
Sample Sentences
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Suckling is unlearnt behaviour in mammals.
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The critic, Dennis, was not an unlearnt man, he felt the misery of public contempt and neglect in his latter days. [1827, The Whitby Magazine, and Monthly Literary Journal, page 311:]
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When Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost, especially being an unlearnt man, wasn't the lord ^([sic]) speaking through him? [2005, Oneil McQuick, The Voice..., page 457:]
Adjectives inflected like unlearnt
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From un- (“not”) + learnt.