as in ignorant
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
a literary reference that could not be grasped by an uneducated person
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Recent Examples of uneducated
Tina Siemens, a local historian in Gaines County who has assisted Edwards in the clinic, pushed back against the notion that the Mennonites in the area are uneducated about the disease or their decision not to vaccinate.
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025
Democracy dies from an uneducated, uniformed and illiterate citizenry.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
Only an uneducated person or an unnecessarily cruel person would think otherwise.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
In response, the governor suggested the president was uneducated about water policy, and declined to criticize him when asked about Democrats’ response to the brief pause in federal funding for state governments.
—Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2025
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2025
Democracy dies from an uneducated, uniformed and illiterate citizenry.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
Only an uneducated person or an unnecessarily cruel person would think otherwise.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
In response, the governor suggested the president was uneducated about water policy, and declined to criticize him when asked about Democrats’ response to the brief pause in federal funding for state governments.
—Lia Russell, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneducated
ignorant
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Less prescient was her claim—ignorant in exactly the way of so many white feminists throughout history—that racial oppression would be solved once gender was abolished.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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The provision prohibiting states from regulating AI for the next 10 years is unconscionably ignorant and dangerous.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2025
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“Uneducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneducated. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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