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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
untaught is an adjective meaning "lacking in schooling". It carries one recorded sense.
lacking in schooling
“untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient”
“an untutored genius”
“uneducated children”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for untaught come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.