as in ignorant
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
a literary reference that could not be grasped by an uneducated person
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Recent Examples of uneducated
Then, the people who are uneducated and his kind of Spinozan idea that the uneducated are closer to animals and God, really, because they’re not spoiled by knowledge.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Suddenly, your oldest is helping the youngest, or your toddler is excitedly explaining Santa to his woefully uneducated baby sister.
—Elizabeth Broadbent, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.
—Carmen Abd Ali, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Suddenly, your oldest is helping the youngest, or your toddler is excitedly explaining Santa to his woefully uneducated baby sister.
—Elizabeth Broadbent, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.
—Carmen Abd Ali, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneducated
ignorant
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So what will our ignorant commissioner do with the information?—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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But criticism quickly began to pile in on Chinese social media, where users denounced the advertising stunt as ignorant of the potential environmental impacts in a remote and pristine ecosystem.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Uneducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneducated. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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