unlettered
unlettered adjective: not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.
Adjective
unlettered (not comparable)
- Not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.
- […]that vnletered ſmall knowing ſoule[…]c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents...1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 374
- Synonyms:
- ignorant, illiterate
- Not expressed in or marked with letters.
unlettered meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
unlettered in Tamil
- படிக்காத, பாமர, மூட, எழுதப்படாத
unlettered in Urdu
- غیرپڑھا لکھا
unlettered in Malayalam
- അക്ഷരപരിജ്ഞാനമില്ലാത്ത, കാവ്യഗന്ധമില്ലാത്ത, നിരക്ഷരകുക്ഷിയായ
Examples of unlettered in a sentence
- Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London...
- They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman.1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVI, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg &...
- But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered.1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
Synonyms of unlettered
Origin of unlettered
From un- + lettered.
Words formed from unlettered
Questions about unlettered
- What does unlettered mean?
- Unlettered means not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.
- What is unlettered in Tamil?
- Unlettered in Tamil is படிக்காத, பாமர, மூட. See Unlettered meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use unlettered in a sentence?
- Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.
- What part of speech is unlettered?
- Unlettered is an adjective.
Words near unlettered in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlettered (page history and authors); unlettered (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unlettered (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unlettered (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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