[…]that vnletered ſmall knowing ſoule[…]
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Unlettered
Synonyms for "unlettered" (54 found)
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Related words (27)
nonintellectualpaganphilistinerudeunbookedunbookishunbooklearnedunbriefeduncultivatedunculturedunedifieduneruditeunguideduninstructedunintellectualunlearnedunliteraryunreadunrefinedunscholarly
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3 entriesTranslations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀγράμματος adj (not educated; unable to read)
Bulgarian
1 entries- неграмотен adj (not educated; unable to read)
French
1 entries- illettré adj (not educated; unable to read)
Hungarian
4 entries- analfabéta adj (not educated; unable to read)
- iskolázatlan adj (not educated; unable to read)
- tanulatlan adj (not educated; unable to read)
- írástudatlan adj (not educated; unable to read)
Latin
1 entries- illitterātus adj (not educated; unable to read)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- analfabet adj (not educated; unable to read)
- nepismen adj (not educated; unable to read)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.
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They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman.
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But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered.
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