uneducated person
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3.0
- noun
- /ˌʌnˈɛdʒʊˌkeɪtɪd ˈpɜrsən/
- Offensive
:
ignorante
- Set down in the wilderness, surrounded by uneducated people, she was attracted to Belle, as unlike the others, and the two women soon became fast friends.
Now, keep in mind that I was a very uneducated person.
- 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.
- It's the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares, I'll where he does poorly because of his own screwing up.
Examples
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However, she was a comparatively uneducated person, not a professional environmentalist, scientist, or public health official.
Academic text (1999) -
Literacy has long been used to differentiate educated from uneducated people in Kenya.
Academic text (2008) -
We have a majority of uneducated people making decisions for us.
Blog text (30) -
Are you saying you want uneducated people to vote?
Blog text (13) -
You cannot fix things with uneducated people.
Blog text (8) -
The paper also makes a few other points that might not be obvious to other uneducated people like myself.
Blog text (24) -
I have heard many uneducated people speak exactly as depicted in the book, even in the 1960s.
Blog text (29) -
Muhammad prophesied that uneducated persons would one day rule over people.
Blog text (33) -
The defense attorney wants as many educated people as possible on the jury, and the plaintiff's attorney wants uneducated people.
Academic text (2006) -
Many challenges in society arise because the decisions of uneducated people often lack informed perspectives.
Synonyms
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8.3
A person who does not know much
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8.5
An insulting word for a person who has very little information
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4.0
A person who cannot read or write
A person who cannot read or write
A person who cannot read or reads very little
Antonyms
How Educated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who has not received much or any formal education' is directly derivable from combining 'uneducated' (not taught or trained) with 'person' (a human being). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase uneducated person comes from the word part un-, meaning 'not', and educated, meaning 'taught or trained'. Imagine someone who never had school or teachers. That picture shows why the phrase means 'a person with little or no formal schooling'.