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

Since members of Congress can not be impeached, Omar said the demand for it just showed that our prominent politicians are “uneducated.”

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Many of the enlisted men were poor, uneducated and on the margins before the war and came back to the same circumstances.

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He said that he was lucky to be uneducated because he spent his whole life learning.

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“Dissatisfied that Mr. Montañez — a poor, uneducated Mexican plant worker and janitor — had successfully developed a new product, Frito-Lay’s R&D personnel completely shut out Mr. Montañez from the development process,” the lawsuit said.

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He's uneducated about history, so he doesn't realize that it was America that built the system he rails against.

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Related Words

• ignorant 
• illiterate 
• unschooled