[
UK
/ʌnlˈɜːn/
]
VERB
- try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge
- discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
How To Use unlearn In A Sentence
- Though the last is listed in Welsh's bibliography, its lessons appear unlearned.
- This is good for their profit margins but not healthy brain function - and in any case it can be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
- It can always be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
- Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
- Infectious complications of medical devices are often not considered in the context of reporting, and so the possible lessons that can minimise recurrence remain unlearnt.
- But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
- Although the mechanisms which permit modification of behavior are inherited, learned behavior does not emerge from, and is not an extension of, the unlearned behavior of the individual.
- He has all the scatophagous faults of the unlearned. orbis quintus
- It is difficult for a 'solo' biker to learn to ride because ingrained habits must be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
- My cousins were mere cubs, in whose company I might, if I liked it, unlearn whatever decent manners, or elegant accomplishments, I had acquired, but where I could attain no information beyond what regarded worming dogs, rowelling horses, and following foxes. Rob Roy