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uneducated

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/ / /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/ / /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/

adj

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.

  1. Not educated.

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

noun

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.

  1. Someone who lacks education.

    […] 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.”

    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).