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UK/ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/UK/ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/US/ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/

adjective

Not educated.

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveuneducated (comparative more uneducated, superlative most uneducated)

comparative more uneducated · superlative most uneducated

  1. 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
noununeducated (plural uneducateds)

plural uneducateds

  1. Someone who lacks education.

    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
    2 more examples

    […] 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

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englisheducate
  9. Englisheducated
  10. Englishuneducated

From un- + educated.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Afrikaans onopgevoed
  • onopgevoednot educated
Ancient Greek ἀπαίδευτος, ἀμαθής
  • ἀπαίδευτος (apaídeutos)not educated
  • ἀμαθής (amathḗs)not educated
Bulgarian необразо́ван
  • необразо́ван (neobrazóvan)not educated
Czech nevzdělaný
  • nevzdělanýnot educated
Dutch ongeschoold
  • ongeschooldnot educated
Finnish kouluttamaton
  • kouluttamatonnot educated
French inculte
  • incultenot educated
German ungebildet, bildungsfern
  • ungebildetnot educated
  • bildungsfernnot educated
Greek αμόρφωτος
  • αμόρφωτος (amórfotos)not educated
Hindi अशिक्षित
  • अशिक्षित (aśikṣit)not educated
Hungarian műveletlen, tanulatlan
  • műveletlennot educated
  • tanulatlannot educated
Irish gan oideachas, gan scoil
  • gan oideachasnot educated
  • gan scoilnot educated
  • tuatachnot educated
  • lábántanot educated
Italian incolto
  • incoltonot educated
Korean 무지하다, 무식하다
  • 무지하다 (mujihada)not educated
  • 무식하다 (musikhada)not educated
  • 무학하다 (muhakhada)not educated
  • 배운 데 없다 (bae'un de eopda)not educated
  • 멍청하다 (meongcheonghada)not educated
Latin illitterātus, indoctus
  • illitterātusnot educated
  • indoctusnot educated
  • inērudītusnot educated
Polish niewykształcony
  • niewykształconynot educated
Portuguese inculto
  • incultonot educated
Russian необразо́ванный
  • необразо́ванный (neobrazóvannyj)not educated
Spanish inculto, sin estudios
  • incultonot educated
  • sin estudiosnot educated
  • non educadonot educated
  • ineducadonot educated
  • indoctonot educated
Turkish eğitimsiz
  • eğitimsiznot educated
Yiddish נישט־דערצויגן
  • נישט־דערצויגן (nisht-dertsoygn)not educated
Cite this entry
APA

uneducated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneducated

MLA

“uneducated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneducated. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uneducated,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneducated.

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