unlettered adj

1 having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society" [syn: analphabetic]

2 lacking general education or knowledge; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions" [syn: ignorant, nescient, unenlightened, unlearned]

English

Etymology

From un- + lettered

Adjective

1. not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
2. not expressed in or marked with letters

Derived terms

• unletteredness

Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, benighted, bookless, deceived, empty-headed, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonintellectual, pagan, rude, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored