Unenlightened

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unenlightened \Unenlightened\
     See {enlightened}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unenlightened


       adj 1: not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which
              unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order"
              [ant: {enlightened}]
       2: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably
          unenlightened as to the laws" [syn: {uninstructed}]
       3: lacking general education or knowledge; "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 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "unenlightened":
     ableptical, amaurotic, awkward, benighted, bereft of light,
     blankminded, blind, callow, color-blind, dark, dim-sighted, dumb,
     empty, empty-headed, eyeless, gauche, green, groping, hemeralopic,
     ignorant, in darkness, inane, inexperienced, innocent,
     know-nothing, mind-blind, naive, nescient, nyctalopic, raw,
     rayless, sightless, simple, spiritually blind, stark blind,
     stone-blind, strange to, tentative, unacquainted, unapprized,
     uncomprehending, unconversant, undiscerning, unfamiliar,
     unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, unknowing,
     unobserving, unperceiving, unposted, unprogressive, unripe,
     unseeing, unsure, unversed, vacuous, visionless