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Ignorant of one French old coin with English date
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uneducated
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ uneducated farmworkers EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adding to this was the contribution of another participant that it was wrong to view West Belfast people as uneducated . ▪ An uneducated and ignorant man would usually ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of educate (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. not educated
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not having a good education [ant: educated ] not adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and concepts
Usage examples of uneducated.
These have but arrived in the country, and their influence must effect a radical change in the mental standard of the native Colonists, and, we firmly hope, overcome the pernicious influence which wealthy emancipists and uneducated dealers have hitherto exercised upon the minds of the rising generation, and who, being in many instances only concealed rogues, masked their want of principle, and mingled with the more reputable class, which tended to undermine the whole moral fabric, and to sink the mental tone of the whole race of Colonists.
Moreover, the Templars were in general uneducated, and capable only of wielding the sword, with no qualifications for governing, and at need enchaining, that queen of the world called Opinion.
This epidemic of rustic rabbis, with their simplistic philosophy and folksy adages, gives the Jewish religious establishment and the Roman occupiers a rare opportunity for cooperation, for the priests resent the devotion and enthusiasm that the uneducated Wad lavishes on these fanatics, and the Romans see them as foci for social unrest in a population already dangerously unstable.
The villagers were an uneducated group for the most part, and Hennin had dazzled them with her brilliance and persuasive logic.
Dumping grounds for the uneducated hoi polloi, the jobless peasants, the Asians, the blacks, the Dominicans, the fodder that keeps our opulent society humming, the little people who kill the chickens and disembowel the cattle and pick the cotton and work in the sweatshops and wash the dishes, scrub the toilets, mop floors, and buy all the cigarettes.
And I have also suggested that the old lower class, the broad necessary base of the social pyramid, the uneducated inadaptable peasants and labourers, is, with the development of toil-saving machinery, dwindling and crumbling down bit by bit towards the abyss.
The fact was that he could never reconcile himself to the idea that an uneducated Kerl such as Esser could be a member of the Cabinet.
For a philosopher should not see with the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a catholic creature, and as standing in equal relation to high and low, to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.
In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed.
He braved the gay and guileless laugh Of children with their nusses, The loud uneducated chaff Of clerks on omnibuses.
The uneducated warrior Sailles had conquered the land, and then, curious and fiercely determined, had hired a wizard to teach him to read and write.
It is certain that he can largely influence the character of a breed by selecting, in each successive generation, individual differences so slight as to be quite inappreciable by an uneducated eye.
Miles Soper, though he was perfectly uneducated, and could neither read nor write.
The educated and semi-educated, and even uneducated, classes of the time were fascinated by the acting of classical actors in classical tragedies and comedies.
The point of the satire is directed against the brutish and selfish crudeness and barbarity of the uneducated country gentry.