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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | backward, illiterate, instinctive, natural, uncivilized, uneducated, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed |
| Antonyms: | learned |
| 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: | instinctive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reflex, automatic |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, by seat of one's pants, congenital, habitual, impulsive, inborn, ingrained, inherent, innate, instinctual, intrinsic, intuitional, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, native, natural, normal, regular, rooted, second-nature, spontaneous, typical, unlearned, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, visceral |
| Antonyms: | conscious, deliberate, meditated, reasonable, sensible |
| Main Entry: | lowbrowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncultivated, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, untutored |
| Main Entry: | primitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barbaric, crude |
| Synonyms: | animal, atavistic, austere, barbarian, barbarous, brutish, childlike, fierce, ignorant, naive, natural, nonliterate, preliterate, raw, rough, rude, rudimentary, savage, simple, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undomesticated, unlearned, unrefined, unsophisticated, untamed, untaught, untrained, untutored, vestigial, wild |
| Antonyms: | cultured, modern, sophisticated |
| 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: | young |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, boylike, budding, burgeoning, callow, childish, childlike, crude, developing, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, girllike, green*, growing, half-grown, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, newish, not aged, pubescent, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unfledged, unlearned, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untaught |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uneducated |
| Synonyms: | ignorant, illiterate, instinctive, natural, spontaneous, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untrained, untutored |
| Antonyms: | learned, taught |
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