different between untamed vs untaught

English

Etymology

From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- +? tamed and/or untame +? -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?te?md/

Adjective

untamed (comparative more untamed, superlative most untamed)

1. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.

   The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.

Related terms

• untame

Translations

Anagrams

• unmated

English

Etymology

un- +? taught

Adjective

untaught (comparative more untaught, superlative most untaught)

1. Not taught; uneducated.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     My ?coles are not for unthriftes untaught,
     For frantick faitours half mad and half ?traught;
     But my learning is of another degree
     To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

   • 2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (page 58)

     The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.

2. (not comparable) Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
   • 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable

     What they used to teach here
     Now goes untaught.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ignorant