uneducated

Adjective

Meaning

not having a good education

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

philistine ignorant illiterate untrained unsophisticated uncivilized belated uncouth unlearned unread benighted unrefined unenlightened unknowing know-nothing

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Antonyms

pedagogic sapient academic learned ready trained

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Phrases with the word

uneducated person uneducated woman less uneducated be uneducated

Examples

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. Friedrich Schlegel

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. Winston Churchill

An uneducated person is like an unpolished mirror. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

uneducably uneducatable uneducate uneducated guess uneducated person uneducated woman