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
Only an uneducated person or an unnecessarily cruel person would think otherwise.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
In response, the governor suggested the president was uneducated about water policy, and declined to criticize him when asked about Democrats’ response to the brief pause in federal funding for state governments.
—Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2025
The majority of those who move here are uneducated and poor and nearly all become economic burdens on the U.S., either directly or indirectly.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
In response, the governor suggested the president was uneducated about water policy, and declined to criticize him when asked about Democrats’ response to the brief pause in federal funding for state governments.
—Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2025
The majority of those who move here are uneducated and poor and nearly all become economic burdens on the U.S., either directly or indirectly.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Uneducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneducated. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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