unlettered
from
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}]
from
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
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