Antonyms for uneducated


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-ej-oo-key-tid, -ed-yoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪ tɪd, -ˈɛd yʊ-


Definition of uneducated

Origin :
  • 1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of educate.
  • adj lacking knowledge
Example sentences :
  • But to the uneducated eye of Andrew Lanning it was a great and dignified building.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • She was uneducated and ill-mannered, impulsive and quarrelsome.
  • Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
  • Their ideas of history, for instance, are simply cheap and uneducated.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • But Panther was not pleased to think that his brother was so uneducated, so he had him study.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • To the uneducated person he would appear to be the ideal of a judge.
  • Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
  • But uneducated colonists, who are unacquainted with each other, will not be likely to choose well.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • Most of his companions were uneducated men, accustomed, as he was not, to the rough life.
  • Extract from : « Rodney, the Ranger » by John V. Lane
  • They were natural and gentlemanly, even down to the poorest and most uneducated.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • The same is evident from the spelling of uneducated persons in our own day.
  • Extract from : « English Past and Present » by Richard Chevenix Trench
  • It may be replied that these were all or nearly all from the letters of the ignorant and uneducated.
  • Extract from : « English Past and Present » by Richard Chevenix Trench

Synonyms for uneducated

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