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
Concha and Fox News host Lawrence Jones highlighted that people who watch the View are uneducated.
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Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
Chaiwalas, or street tea venders, have long been taken as emblems of the small-scale entrepreneurialism by which uneducated Indians can gain subsistence, and, in theory, something more.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Dientes was a peasant, substantially illiterate and uneducated.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
Elite and colonial observers frequently portrayed rural inhabitants as uneducated, backward, or untrustworthy, reflecting broader social and class biases toward the island’s interior population.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
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Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
Chaiwalas, or street tea venders, have long been taken as emblems of the small-scale entrepreneurialism by which uneducated Indians can gain subsistence, and, in theory, something more.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Dientes was a peasant, substantially illiterate and uneducated.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
Elite and colonial observers frequently portrayed rural inhabitants as uneducated, backward, or untrustworthy, reflecting broader social and class biases toward the island’s interior population.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneducated
ignorant
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The popularity of e-bikes and e-motos has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving lawmakers and law enforcement scrambling to regulate the bikes that are often used by young riders ignorant or disdainful of the rules of the road.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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Trump is either too ignorant or mentally challenged — and dangerous — to continue as president.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Uneducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneducated. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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