unlettered
[uhn-let-erd]
adjective
not educated; uneducated; untutored; ignorant.
not literate; illiterate.
not marked with letters, as a tombstone.
Origin of unlettered
Synonyms for unlettered
1. See ignorant.
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Related Words for unlettered
unschooled, illiterate, ignorant, uneducated, uninformed, naive, obtuse, innocent, oblivious, unlearned, unrefined, unsophisticated, untaught, unread, untutored, empty-headed, ignoramus, uncultivated, uncultured, benightedExamples from the Web for unlettered
Contemporary Examples of unlettered
In the novel, Newton takes up with a frumpy, unlettered Kentucky woman well into middle age.
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February 9, 2014
They were not designed via the epiphany of an unlettered Russian sergeant at a workbench, as fables would have it.
Historical Examples of unlettered
I wonder still at the unlettered condition of the boys about me.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
I held him to be a shallow, unlettered clown, devoid of any finer feelings.
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
Foreigners were things which in his untraveled, unlettered ignorance he despised.
The Lion's SkinRafael Sabatini
He was unlettered, had never opened a book, and seemed to know little of the ways of men.
The ArenaVarious
His letters were the painful efforts of an unlettered mujik, as indeed he was.
The Minister of EvilWilliam Le Queux
unlettered
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