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Adjective: unlearned  ,ún'lur-nid or ún'lurnd
  1. Not well learned
     
  2. Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
    "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues";
    - ignorant, nescient, unlettered
     
  3. Not established by conditioning or learning
    - unconditioned, innate
Verb: unlearn (unlearned, also unlearnt)  ,ún'lurn
  1. Try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge
     
  2. Discard something previously learnt, like an old habit

See also: naive, naïve, uneducated, unscholarly

Type of: bury, cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, disremember [US, informal], fling, forget, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

Encyclopedia: Unlearn