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un-lettered
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | benighted, uncultivated, unenlightened, unlettered, unread |
| Main Entry: | illiterate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to read well; lacking education |
| Synonyms: | benighted, catachrestic, ignorant, inerudite, solecistic, uneducated, unenlightened, ungrammatical, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored |
| Antonyms: | able, educated, learned, literate, taught |
| Main Entry: | lowbrowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncultivated, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, untutored |
| Main Entry: | uneducated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking knowledge |
| Synonyms: | benighted, empty-headed, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, inerudite, know-nothing, lowbrow, uncultivated, uncultured, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, unschooled, untaught, untutored |
| Antonyms: | educated, intelligent, learned, lettered, taught |
| Main Entry: | unschooled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | green, illiterate, naive, uneducated, uninformed, unlearned, unlettered, untaught, untrained, untutored |
| Antonyms: | educated, learned |
| Main Entry: | uncultured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude |
| Synonyms: | boorish, coarse, crass, ignorant, philistine, rude, uncivilized, uncouth, unlettered, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | cultured |
| Main Entry: | low-browed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unintellectual |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly, unschooled, unsophisticated, untutored |
| Main Entry: | nescient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless |
| Notes: | prescient is having foreknowledge, parviscient is having little knowledge, and nescient is lacking or disclaiming knowledge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninstructed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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