uneducated

[ uhn-ej-oo-key-tid, -ed-yoo- ]

adjective

1. not educated.

   Synonyms: uncultivated, uninformed, unenlightened, uninstructed, untaught, unschooled, untutored

uneducated

/ ʌnˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. not having been educated to a good standard

   poor uneducated people

Word History and Origins

Origin of uneducated¹

First recorded in 1580–90; un- ¹ + educated

Synonym Study

See ignorant.

Example Sentences

Popularly hailed as a hero, Pasteur was also vilified by some hostile doctors, who considered him an uneducated interloper in medicine.

From Science News

In recent years, many analysts have unfairly caricatured the so-called “surprise” electoral victories of populist leaders as the result of uneducated voters brainwashed by disinformation.

From Time

I’m putting my foot in mouth every fourth word because we’re talking about things that have to do with deaf and hearing culture and I am so uneducated.

From Essence.com

Moreover, the risks embedded in crypto assets might end up largely falling in the laps of uneducated investors who get swept up at the tail end of speculative frenzies.

From Time

I am always sensitive, I always call my brother because I want to make sure I say the right things…I know I am uneducated, but I am full of love.

From Washington Blade

Moreover, uneducated Americans have a competitive advantage because of their fluency in English.

From The Daily Beast

Out West, in a tepee, on a reservation, alcohol, drug abuse, drain on society, poverty, uneducated—beaten down.

From The Daily Beast

The violence and uneducated anger that my husband endured will not be the world in which my son grows up.

From The Daily Beast

Maybe it's because we're educated and many uneducated white people don't understand what really happened.

From The Daily Beast

The gun-control debate is not a new one, and the voters who care about it are not uneducated on the subject.

From The Daily Beast

Children, like uneducated adults, have been known to take a spectacle on the stage of a theatre too seriously.

From Project Gutenberg

Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.

From Project Gutenberg

To converse with an entirely uneducated person upon literature, interlarding your remarks with quotations, is ill-bred.

From Project Gutenberg

Such provisions prevented many uneducated Negroes from participating in elections.

From Project Gutenberg

The village schoolmasters, uneducated themselves, and mostly unpaid, make but a feeble impression.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ignorant
• illiterate
• unschooled