Definitions for unlearn

unlearn un·learn

Spelling: [uhn-lurn]
IPA: /ʌnˈlɜrn/

Unlearn is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in unlearn (aelnnru).

Definitions for unlearn

verb (used with object)

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

verb (used without object)

  1. to lose or discard knowledge.

Origin of unlearn

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

Examples for unlearn

Even to him the best grammar is the shortest and that in which he will have least to unlearn.

Two friends try to unlearn bad-relationship habits by dating each other, exclusively, for 40 days.

And he was quicker than his educated countrymen, for he had nothing to unlearn.

Tour lesson will be an easy one—you have nothing to unlearn.

About how your character and judgments were formed and how you came to unlearn that first and not always painful formation?

And it is harder to unlearn an old lesson than to learn a new.

So if PhDs want to be writers, they often have to unlearn what they've learned.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

The people of a country do not unlearn in a day the long lessons of the past.

Getting the Chinese government to unlearn that lesson won't be easy.

Word Value for unlearn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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