UNLEARN Definition & Meaning

unlearn

[ uhn-lurn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to forget or lose knowledge of.
to discard or put aside certain knowledge as being false or binding:
to unlearn preconceptions.

verb (used without object)

to lose or discard knowledge.

unlearn

/ ʌ��ˈ��ɜː�� /

verb

to try to forget (something learnt) or to discard (accumulated knowledge)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of unlearn¹

First recorded in 1400–50, unlearn is from the late Middle English word unlernen. See un- ², learn

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Our fear of the old boys' club must be unlearned.

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Hawken’s book is a lesson in what’s sometimes called “unlearning,” or letting go of old assumptions, like the idea that nature is something to fix or control.

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I had to unlearn the muscle memory of taking people to a poignant place and then relieving that tension with a punch line.

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Ross invites us to unlearn the complacent strictures of cinema he never bothered to absorb.

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Whether they faced physical abuse or not, the estranged children who spoke with Salon mostly spoke of a long process of unlearning the worldview in which they had been raised.

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unleaded unlearned

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