Uneducated

//ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who lacks education.

    "[…] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not educated.

    "Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not having a good education wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
unletteredunschooledunstudiedbarbaricbarbarousbelated

Example

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"On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead.""

Etymology

From un- + educated.

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