Synonyms for untrained
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1. untrained

   Fierce signifies having a furious and cruel nature, or being in a furious and cruel mood, more commonly the latter. It applies to that which is now intensely excited, or liable to intense and sudden excitement. Ferocious refers to a state or disposition; that which is fierce flashes or blazes; that which is ferocious steadily burns; we speak of a ferocious animal, a fierce passion. A fiery spirit with a good disposition is quickly excitable in a good cause, but may not be fierce or ferocious. Savage signifies untrained, uncultivated. Ferocious always denotes a tendency to violence; it is more distinctly bloodthirsty than the other words; a person may be deeply, intensely cruel, and not at all ferocious; a ferocious countenance expresses habitual ferocity; a fierce countenance may express habitual fierceness, or only the sudden anger of the moment. That which is wild is simply unrestrained; the word may imply no anger or harshness; as, wild delight, wild alarm.

   Synonyms:
   ferocious, fierce, fiery, furious, impetuous, raging, savage, uncultivated, violent, wild

   Antonyms:
   affectionate, docile, gentle, harmless, kind, mild, patient, peaceful, submissive, sweet, tame, tender

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1. untrainedadjective

   not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training

   "an untrained voice"; "untrained troops"; "young minds untrained in the habit of concentration"

   Antonyms:
   pot-trained, potty-trained, toilet-trained, house-trained, trained, drilled, housebroken, disciplined

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1. untrainedadjective

   Synonyms:
   undisciplined, uninstructed, uneducated, untutored, inexperienced, uninitiated, undrilled, not trained, ignorant

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1. List of paraphrases for "untrained":

   inexperienced, unskilled, non-professional, sedentary, unqualified, nonprofessional

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1. Emma Ross:

   We adapted the central nervous system to be OK with not stopping exercise at those( normal) levels, to be more tolerant of high intensity, in an untrained person the system is quite conservative but shifts as you train.

2. Lawrence Kubie:

   Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

3. Paula Donovan:

   They're a ragtag collection of untrained, unqualified staff with zero authority to investigate crimes, no idea how to preserve evidence for a trial, and no expertise toquestionany victims of rape, never mind women and children who've been violently sexually abused by the integrated team's fellow U.N. workers.

4. Dirk Hoogstra:

   Most people think of this time as a bunch of guys in wigs who got in a room and wrote up the Declaration of Independence, but it is so much more than that, i'm not sure people really understand how crazy it was to make the decision they made to go to war with the most powerful military in the world, being untrained and unorganized.

5. Damion Martins:

   Even at the young age, the heart is a muscle...there are 16-year-olds that can have an enlarged heart from muscle, so it looks like an athlete EKG. It has higher voltage. Pediatricians say this is abnormal, but a sports medicine specialist would say that's the typical pattern of a trained athlete, untrained physicians overcall abnormality and that leads to further testing.