Unlettered

3 definitions found

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

  Unlettered \Unlettered\
     See {lettered}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unlettered


       adj 1: having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials
              to assist the unlettered sector of society" [syn: {analphabetic}]
       2: 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}, {unenlightened}, {unlearned}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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