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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication;
- Example: "an ignorant man"
- Example: "nescient of contemporary literature"
- Example: "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"
- Example: "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
[syn: ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettered]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unlettered \Unlettered\ See lettered.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unlettered adj 1: having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society" [syn: analphabetic, unlettered] 2: uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions" [syn: ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettered]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlettered": 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