Unlearn

Definition: Unlearn

Unlearn

Verb

1. Try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge.

2. Discard something previously learnt, like an old habit.

Date "unlearn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Unlearn

Synonyms by domain: reverse learning (computing), unlearning.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Oblivion	Unlearn; efface; , discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of; (turn the attention from); cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones;(forgive).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unlearn

English words defined with "unlearn": unteach. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You must unlearn what you have learned. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry David Thoreau	When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unlearn" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Unlearn" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	91.3%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.7%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

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Language		Translations for "unlearn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		afwen (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get, get out of a habit, teach). (various references)

Albanian		heq nga mendja (dismiss). (various references)

Arabic		‏نسى (cause to forget, forget, leave, miss, omit, overlook, sink, slur), ‏طرح فكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		отучвам се, забравям (fail, forget, leave behind, neglect, omit, put aside, put behind). (various references)

Czech		odnauèit se. (various references)

Dutch		afwennen (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, teach), afleren (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, forget, get out of a habit, teach). (various references)

Esperanto		mallerni, dekutimiĝi (break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit). (various references)

Farsi		محفوظات رافراموش کردن , ازیادبردن . (various references)

French		désapprendre. (various references)

Frisian		ôfwenne (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, teach), ôfleare (break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit). (various references)

German		verlernen (forget, lose), abgewöhnen (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, cure of, get out of a habit, get smb. to give up, give up, teach, to give up). (various references)

Greek		ξεμαθαίνω (break a habit), απομανθάνω. (various references)

Hungarian		elfelejt (forget, to get over, to unlearn, unlearnt). (various references)

Italian		disimparare (forget), perdere l'abitunide di (break oneself of a habit, get, get out of a habit). (various references)

Pig Latin		earnunlay

Portuguese		esquecer (escape, forget, ostracize), desaprender. (various references)

Romanian		se dezvãţa de. (various references)

Russian		разучиться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaboraviti naučeno, odučiti (wean). (various references)

Spanish		desaprender (forget). (various references)

Swedish		försöka glömma bort. (various references)

Turkish		unutmak (be oblivious of, be unmindful of, forget, leave, leave behind, leave out, loose sight of, neglect, omit, pass the sponge over), vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, waive, wangle, wangle out of), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unloose, walk out), öğrendiğini unutmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		розучуватися, відучитися. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unlearn": unlearnable, unlearned, unlearning, unlearns, unlearnt. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unlearn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dunleary, Mulhearn, uileann, uillean, uilleann, uulaan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: lanner, neural, runnel, unreal.
	-2 letters: annul, learn, lunar, renal, ulnae, ulnar, ureal.
	-3 letters: earl, earn, elan, lane, lean, lear, luna, lune, lure, near, nurl, rale, real, rule, rune, ulan, ulna, urea.
	-4 letters: ale, ane, are, ear, eau, era, ern, lar, lea, leu, nae, nan, nun, ran, rue, run, urn.
	-5 letters: ae, al, an, ar, el.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: neuronal, unlearns, unlearnt.
	+2 letters: uncleaner, underlain, unilinear, unlearned, unmanlier, unsnarled.
	+3 letters: antennular, granduncle, interlunar, laundering, laundrymen, nondurable, nonnuclear, peninsular, unburnable, unenlarged, ungainlier, unlearning, unmannerly, unraveling.
	+4 letters: antinuclear, counterplan, crenulation, granduncles, innumerable, innumerably, interannual, interlunary, mononuclear, naturalness, neurulation, neutralness, nonburnable, noncellular, nondurables, nonreusable, outlearning, quadrennial, redundantly, relaunching, repugnantly, translucent, uncertainly, underlaying, undrinkable, unendurable, unendurably, unfaltering, unignorable, uninsurable, uniparental, unlaundered, unlearnable, unprintable, unravelling, unreluctant.
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