the uninitiated

noun

: people who do not have knowledge of or experience with something

For the uninitiated, let me explain how this device works.

Examples of the uninitiated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For the uninitiated, soap nails have become popular in recent years for their clean girl look. —Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 7 Apr. 2025

For the uninitiated, Neo can also feel a little creepy, like anything else that seems partly human and partly not. —Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025

Frito pie, for the uninitiated, is a staple side dish at smokehouses, featuring baked beans, chili, and cheddar cheese poured over a bag of corn chips and usually topped with your meat of choice. —The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025

The big picture: First off, for the uninitiated, there are basically two kinds of wrestling: the youth sport/Olympics kind and then professional wrestling — the high-performance, sports entertainment of beatdowns between characters with origin stories and epic costumes. —Karri Peifer, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for the uninitiated

• ameliorated
• decontaminated
• deoxygenated
• deteriorated
• differentiated
• disarticulated
• excommunicated
• incapacitated
• individuated
• misappropriated
• monounsaturated
• multinucleated