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unlettered

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of unlettered

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books

  • unlettered moviegoers could scarcely imagine how little resemblance the film bore to the novel on which it was supposedly based
Synonyms of unlettered

analphabetic, benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored
Words Related to unlettered

functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable

artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured

callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve)

unsophisticated

raw, unskilled, untrained

brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless

foolish, senseless, silly
Near Antonyms of unlettered

brilliant, intelligent, smart

experienced, expert, trained

erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly

cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual

sophisticated

acquainted, aware, familiar
Antonyms of unlettered

educated, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, schooled, well-informed, well-read

Synonym Discussion of unlettered

ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, untutored, unlearned mean not having knowledge. ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing.
    • an ignorant fool
    • ignorant of nuclear physics
illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write.
    • much of the population is still illiterate
unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading.
    • an allusion meaningless to the unlettered
untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization.
    • strange monuments built by an untutored people
unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects.
    • poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses

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