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Unlearned synonyms
ŭn-lûr'nĭd
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unlettered
Not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
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  1. Not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
  2. Not adept at reading and writing; deficient in the knowledge that can be acquired from books.
  3. Not lettered; ignorant; uneducated
rude
Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
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  1. Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
  2. Having or showing little skill or development; primitive
  3. Barbarous or ignorant
boorish
Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
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  1. Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.
  3. Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
uneducated
Not educated.
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  1. Not educated.
ignorant
Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
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  1. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
  2. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
  3. Having little knowledge, education, or experience; uneducated; inexperienced
illiterate
Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
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  1. Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
  2. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature:
  3. Having or showing limited knowledge, experience, or culture, esp. in some particular field
clownish
Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
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  1. Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
  2. (Now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
untutored
Not tutored or taught; uneducated
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  1. Not tutored or taught; uneducated
  2. Simple; naive; unsophisticated
  3. Untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge
untaught
Not taught or instructed; uneducated; ignorant
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  1. Not taught or instructed; uneducated; ignorant
  2. Not instructed; ignorant.
  3. Acquired without being taught; natural
unread
Not read, as a book
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  1. Not read, as a book
  2. Having read little; lacking in knowledge acquired by reading.
  3. Not read, studied, or perused:
savage
Vicious or merciless; brutal:
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  1. Vicious or merciless; brutal:
  2. Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
  3. Without civilization; primitive; barbarous
uncivilized
Not civilized; barbarous; unenlightened
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  1. Not civilized; barbarous; unenlightened
  2. Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.
  3. Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
crass
Tasteless, insensitive, and coarse
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  1. Tasteless, insensitive, and coarse
  2. So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.
  3. Grossly stupid, dull, or obtuse
uninitiated
Not having been initiated.
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  1. Not having been initiated.
  2. Not knowledgeable or skilled; inexperienced.
  3. Of a person, not having the special knowledge of a particular group.
ill-bred
(Of animals) of bad breed
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  1. (Of animals) of bad breed
  2. Badly brought up; lacking good manners; rude; impolite
  3. Not thoroughbred; underbred. Used of animals.
unguided
Not guided; without a guide.
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  1. Not guided; without a guide.
unenlightened
Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
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  1. Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
benighted
Lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened
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  1. Lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened
  2. Caught or surrounded by darkness or night
  3. Intellectually or morally backward; unenlightened
dull
Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
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  1. Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
  2. Not clear or resonant:
  3. Not intensely or keenly felt:
empty
Lacking force or power:
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  1. Lacking force or power:
  2. Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing:
  3. Devoid; destitute:
unaccomplished
Not accomplished
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  1. Not accomplished
  2. Not completed or done; unfinished.
  3. Lacking special skills or abilities; unpolished, as in the social graces.
backward
Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
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  1. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
  2. (Of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
  3. Done or arranged in a manner or order that is opposite to previous occurrence or normal use.
superficial
Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow:
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  1. Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow:
  2. Not extensive or important; minor or insignificant:
  3. Concerned with and understanding only the easily apparent and obvious; not profound; shallow
pedantic
Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
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  1. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  2. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules:
  3. Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner.
adept. See syn. study at ignorant.ignorant (antonym)
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    ignorant
    Shakespeare
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    1. Shakespeare
    2. Having little knowledge, education, or experience; uneducated; inexperienced
    3. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
    illiterate
    Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
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    1. Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
    2. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature:
    3. Having or showing limited knowledge, experience, or culture, esp. in some particular field
    nescient
    Agnostic
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    1. Agnostic
    2. Lacking knowledge; ignorant
    3. Ignorant, unlearned
    uneducated
    Not educated.
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    1. Not educated.
    unschooled
    Not educated or trained, esp. by formal schooling
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    1. Not educated or trained, esp. by formal schooling
    2. Not educated or instructed; having little or no formal schooling.
    3. Not the result of training; natural:
    untaught
    Acquired without being taught; natural
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    1. Acquired without being taught; natural
    2. Not taught or instructed; uneducated; ignorant
    3. Not instructed; ignorant.
    unstudious
    Not studious; not inclined towards studying.
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    1. Not studious; not inclined towards studying.
    Find another word for unlearned. In this page you can discover 45 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for unlearned, like: unlettered, rude, boorish, uneducated, ignorant, illiterate, clownish, untutored, untaught, unread and savage.

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    • His way for others to this reality is likewise plain and level to the comprehension of the unlearned and of children.

    • Soon his discourses exercised a potent influence on learned and unlearned alike; and, although he restricted himself, as indeed was principally his custom through life, to the inculcation of practical righteousness, and the censure of clamant abuses, a rumour of his heretical tendencies reached the bishop of Ely, who resolved to become unexpectedly one of his audience.

    • The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

    • And in regard to Reid's favourite proof of the principles in question by reference to "the consent of ages and nations, of the learned and unlearned," it is only fair to observe that this argument assumes a much more scientific form in the Essays, where it is almost identified with an appeal to "the structure and grammar of all languages."

    • The mole-hills and serrated ridges of medieval maps were still in almost general use at the close of the 18th century, and are occasionally met with at the present day, being cheaply produced, readily understood by the unlearned, and in reality preferable to the uncouth and misleading hatchings still to be seen on many maps.

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