uneducated

adjective

un·ed·u·cat·ed ˌən-ˈe-jə-ˌkā-təd

: having or showing little or no formal schooling : not educated

Owing to my father being left an orphan at the age of six years, in poverty, and in a new country, he became a wholly uneducated man.—

Abraham Lincoln

an uneducated attitude

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Its residents are Mennonites; the colony’s men have taken grotesque advantage of its hermetic isolation to prey on the women, who are kept uneducated. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023 Every Mississippi mechanism hurt some white voters, too — the poor and the uneducated. —

al, 5 Dec. 2022 Their perspectives are outdated, uneducated and based mostly in fear. —

Hazlitt, 3 Jan. 2023 But at the same time other church leaders associated tongues-speaking with the Pentecostal movement, Christians who were generally poor, uneducated and known for raucous interracial worship services. —

The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022 With three men for every two women, women were kept uneducated and at home. —

Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2012 These victims, once dismissed as crazy and uneducated, are thus remade into philosopher-kings. —

Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 Beecher said candidates are also largely uneducated in Native issues. —

Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2022 The event was pure chaos; the firing was seemingly done impulsively by a handful of the frightened, uneducated ex-cons who filled the British ranks. —

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022 See More

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