1. a person who has not been initiated into a particular group, organization, or body of knowledge

Examples

• The secret society’s rituals were incomprehensible to noninitiates.
• As a noninitiate, she couldn’t understand the technical jargon used by the engineers.
• The professor explained the complex theory in terms that even noninitiates could grasp.
• Only initiates were allowed in the inner chamber; noninitiates had to wait outside.
• The book was written for noninitiates who wanted to learn about quantum physics.
• The club’s traditions seemed strange and mysterious to noninitiates.