uneducated

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English educate

English -ed

English educated

English uneducated

From un- + educated.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/, /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

uneducated (comparative more uneducated, superlative most uneducated)

1. Not educated.
   • 2016 January 27, Tal Kopan, “Ben Carson: Uneducated voters a ‘threat’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ignorant

Derived terms

• uneducated guess
• uneducatedly
• uneducatedness

Related terms

• educated
• noneducated

Translations

not educated

• Afrikaans: onopgevoed
• Bulgarian: необразо́ван (bg) (neobrazóvan)
• Czech: nevzdělaný
• Dutch: ongeschoold (nl)
• Finnish: kouluttamaton (fi)
• French: inculte (fr)
• Georgian: გაუნათლებელი (gaunatlebeli)
• German: ungebildet (de), bildungsfern (de) (euphemism)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌹𐌸𐍃 (unuslaisiþs)
• Greek: αμόρφωτος (el) (amórfotos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀπαίδευτος (apaídeutos), ἀμαθής (amathḗs)

• Hindi: अशिक्षित (hi) (aśikṣit)
• Hungarian: műveletlen (hu), tanulatlan (hu)
• Irish: gan oideachas (of person), gan scoil (of person), tuatach (of pronunciation), lábánta (of pronunciation)
• Italian: incolto (it)
• Kazakh: білімсіз (bilimsiz)
• Korean: 무지하다 (ko) (mujihada), 무식하다 (ko) (musikhada), 무학하다 (muhakhada), 배운 데 없다 (bae'un de eopda), 멍청하다 (ko) (meongcheonghada) (informal)
• Kyrgyz: билимсиз (ky) (bilimsiz)
• Latin: illitterātus, indoctus, inērudītus
• Plautdietsch: onbelieet
• Polish: niewykształcony (pl)
• Portuguese: inculto (pt)
• Russian: необразо́ванный (ru) (neobrazóvannyj)
• Spanish: inculto (es), sin estudios, non educado, ineducado (es), indocto (es)
• Turkish: eğitimsiz (tr)
• Yiddish: נישט־דערצויגן (nisht-dertsoygn)

Noun

uneducated (plural uneducateds)

1. Someone who lacks education.
   • 2011 February 10, Littleblackfish, “Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt”, in Index on Censorship‎^[2]:

     […] 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.”

   • 2018 March 24, Huillam, Warframe Forums‎^[3]:

     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 May 28, Joel Edelman, “Primary election 2018 coverage for the deaf”, in Today's featured shit‎^[4]:

     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).