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undereducate

American  
[uhn-der-ej-oo-kayt] / ˌʌn dərˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

undereducated, undereducating
  1. to educate too little or poorly.


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Etymology

Origin of undereducate

under- + educate


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By all accounts, these self-absorbed and overcredentialed but undereducated youths are struggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The ”poor ignorant folk” in Holmes’ mind were the undereducated country people of 19th-century England.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025

“We were completely undereducated in terms of conversations about prejudice and race.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2020

He said the newly recruited auxiliary police were either undereducated, drunk on power or worried about being found wanting in their duties and being sent to the camps themselves.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020

That’s eggplant to us nonspecial, undereducated, small-town people.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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