Uneducated Meaning
/ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot educated.
nounSomeone who lacks education.
Sentence Examples
People that think and speak only about themselves are hopelessly uneducated.
His father was a wealthy, uneducated farmer who died three months before Newton was born.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Since he had never attended school or learned to read, he remained ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the past, many people remained ____ because they did not have access to any formal schooling system today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English educate English -ed English educated English uneducated From un- + educated.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"[…] 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:
"So what happened? It’s fun to point the finger. Some say it was the poors, or the uneducateds, or even the third-party voters. No matter the scenario, it’s always fun to blame someone else and throw up your hands (while a finger on each is pointed of course)."
— 2018 May 28, Joel Edelman, “Primary election 2018 coverage for the deaf”, in Today's featured shit:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Since he had never attended school or learned to read, he remained ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the past, many people remained ____ because they did not have access to any formal schooling system today.