uninitiated

Speech parts

1. uninitiated - Adjective

2. uninitiated - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

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Examples

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe. Fritjof Capra

[Christian] ... he felt very much like an uninitiated chess-player who sees that the pieces are in a peculiar position on the board, and might open the way for him to give checkmate, if he only knew how. George Eliot

Such axioms, together with other unmotivated definitions, serve mathematicians mainly by making it difficult for the uninitiated to master their subject, thereby elevating its authority. Vladimir Arnold

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Benjamin Peirce

He was a great teacher, who believed that learning is not for hoarding but to be shared. He had an unsurpassed enthusiasm for explaining the phenomenon of nature in a manner that the most uninitiated could understand. C. V. Raman

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. Jerry B. Jenkins

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