Uneducated
[ʌn'edjʊkeɪtɪd] or [ʌn'ɛdʒuketɪd]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, untaught, uncultivated, uninstructed, unenlightened, ignorant, rude.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ignorant, uncultivated,[See EAST]
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Definition
adj. not educated.—v.t. Uned′ucate to deprive of the results of education.
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Examples
- No man of sense who has been generally improved, and has improved himself, can be called quite uneducated as to anything. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But it was because we were uneducated and knew no better. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was a poor, uneducated, unbefriended, mountain girl, raised from nothingness by him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was born in considerable poverty, and even by the standards of the desert he was uneducated; it is doubtful if he ever learnt to write. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perdita was still to a great degree uneducated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. Plato. The Republic.
- So significant is it of a liberal share in what is worth while in life that unlettered and uneducated have become almost synonymous. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Besides this, he was neither uneducated nor deficient. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The uneducated foreigner could not even furnish a Santa Cruz Punch, an Eye-Opener, a Stone-Fence, or an Earthquake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Are you then a fit mate for an uneducated shepherd-boy, whose only inheritance is his father's tarnished name? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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