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uneducated

[ uhn-ej-oo-key-tid, -ed-yoo- ]

uneducated

/ ʌnˈɛdjʊˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. not having been educated to a good standard

    poor uneducated people



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Word History and Origins

Origin of uneducated1

First recorded in 1580–90; un- 1 + educated

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Example Sentences

Moreover, uneducated Americans have a competitive advantage because of their fluency in English.

Out West, in a tepee, on a reservation, alcohol, drug abuse, drain on society, poverty, uneducated—beaten down.

The violence and uneducated anger that my husband endured will not be the world in which my son grows up.

Maybe it's because we're educated and many uneducated white people don't understand what really happened.

The gun-control debate is not a new one, and the voters who care about it are not uneducated on the subject.

Children, like uneducated adults, have been known to take a spectacle on the stage of a theatre too seriously.

Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.

To converse with an entirely uneducated person upon literature, interlarding your remarks with quotations, is ill-bred.

Such provisions prevented many uneducated Negroes from participating in elections.

The village schoolmasters, uneducated themselves, and mostly unpaid, make but a feeble impression.

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