[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