uneducated
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈɛdʒʊˌkeɪtɪd/
- Half the young couples are uneducated and cannot read one book on child psychology.
- uneducated people
- educated and uneducated
- uneducated girls
It can be unemployed, uneducated, poor or fat.
- It can be unemployed, uneducated, poor or fat.
- That's that's basic because an uneducated nation is a controllable nation, right?
- If it is, I'm uneducated and I need to read an Atlas.
- I mean, that's uneducated, very conservative thinking.
- Moreover, the people who left are not the poor people, they're not the uneducated, they're not the losers.
- And so as a society, we are so uneducated about how our own body works.
- I think that it is coming from people who would prefer a passive and uneducated electorate.
- It's where we grew up that this whole thing is rigged against the uneducated.
- They're selfish, they are hidebound, they are reactionary, they are uneducated, whatever it is.
- They want to keep you uneducated so that you fall prey to all of these lies.
- Produce no more and invest the trillions of saved resources and tools of life for the poor, hungry, homeless, sick and uneducated children and people on God's earth.
- I think as someone I consider myself, someone who's fairly uneducated, as a recipient, as a patient of these things.
- Now, keep in mind that I was a very uneducated person.
- And for me that was a really great job with for being an unskilled, uneducated person, stable job, decent for me, money at the time.
- And you think that we we're retrograde and uneducated, just Hicks rednecks.
- As David explained, people who don't agree with you are stupid and uneducated, so why engage in good faith?
Examples
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Many uneducated individuals struggle to find well-paying jobs due to their lack of skills.
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And so as a society, we are so uneducated about how our own body works.
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Labor in rural areas continues to be largely uneducated and has low levels of productivity.
Academic text (2002) -
The people who are hungry need bread, uneducated people need knowledge, and sick people need hospitals.
Academic text (1992) -
Children enter kindergarten "uneducated" and come out of 12th grade "educated."
Academic text (2017) -
Literacy has long been used to differentiate educated from uneducated people in Kenya.
Academic text (2008) -
Society is set up, I mean sadly, in such a way that it's the poor and uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters.
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The community implemented programs to support uneducated adults seeking better job opportunities.
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Uneducated people may have valuable life experiences, even if they lack formal qualifications.
Synonyms
Not knowing about something or how it works
Not knowing much about a subject
Not knowing or understanding important information
Not having enough schooling to learn basic reading and math
A person who has no formal education
Having no formal schooling or lessons
People who cannot read or write
A person who has not had school or lessons
Not knowing much about a subject
A person with little education or knowledge about a subject
Someone who has no training or basic knowledge about a subject
Antonyms
Compounds
How Educated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Uneducated starts with un- meaning 'not' and the part educate meaning 'to teach' or 'bring up'. So uneducated describes someone who has 'not had formal teaching or training'.