uneducated
/ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/US/ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
uneducated adjective: not educated.
Adjective
uneducated (comparative more uneducated, superlative most uneducated)
- Not educated.
- Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.2016 January 27, Tal Kopan, “Ben Carson: Uneducated voters a ‘threat’”, in CNN
Noun
uneducated (plural uneducateds)
- Someone who lacks education.
- […] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”2011 February 10, Littleblackfish, “Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt”, in Index on Censorship
- If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).2018 March 24, Huillam, Warframe Forums
uneducated meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
uneducated in Hindi
- not educated
- अशिक्षित aśikṣit
uneducated in Marathi
- अशिक्षित, अशिक्षीत
uneducated in Urdu
- uneducated
- ان پڑھ anpaṛh
uneducated in Bengali
- অশিক্ষিত
More languagesFewer languages
- uneducated in Malayalam
- പഠിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, അനഭ്യസ്തനായ, വിദ്യാഭ്യാസമില്ലാത്ത, അനധ്യയന
- uneducated in Kannada
- ವಿದ್ಯಾವಂತನಲ್ಲದ, ಓದುಬರಹ ಬಾರದ, ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಪಡೆಯದ, ಅವಿದ್ಯಾವಂತ
- uneducated in Punjabi
- ਅਨਪਡ਼੍ਹ, ਅਣ-ਪਡ਼੍ਹੇ-ਲਿਖੇ
- uneducated in Gujarati
- અશિક્ષિત
- uneducated in Odia
- ଅଶିକ୍ଷିତ
- uneducated in Nepali
- अशिक्षित, अशिक्षितहरू
Examples of uneducated in a sentence
- His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.
- He was practically uneducated, barely able to read and write a simple sentence.
- How can we find gainful employment with dignity for the uneducated?
Forms of uneducated
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more uneducated |
| superlative | most uneducated |
| Noun | |
| plural | uneducateds |
Origin of uneducated
From un- + educated.
Words formed from uneducated
Phrases with uneducated
Questions about uneducated
- What does uneducated mean?
- Uneducated means not educated.
- What is uneducated in Hindi?
- Uneducated in Hindi is अशिक्षित (aśikṣit). See Uneducated meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is uneducated?
- Uneducated can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce uneducated?
- Uneducated is pronounced /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/ (UK).
Words near uneducated in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: uneducated (page history and authors); uneducated (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ان پڑھ (Urdu) (page history and authors); uneducated (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uneducated (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); uneducated (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uneducated (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uneducated (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uneducated (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); uneducated (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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