Unenlightened
[ʌnɪn'laɪt(ə)nd;-en-] or [,ʌnɪn'laɪtnd]
Definition
(adj.) not enlightened; ignorant; 'the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order' .
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Ignorant, UNEDUCATED.
Edited by Francine
Definition
adj. not enlightened.
Edited by Julia
Examples
- There was something of the stupidity and the unenlightened self-esteem of a horse in it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:--Behold! Plato. The Republic.
- Will it be permitted me to adduce, on this occasion, an instance of the like honour in a poor, unenlightened African negro. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The mulatto woman was a member of the Methodist church, and had an unenlightened but very sincere spirit of piety. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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