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单词 uneducated
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Definition of uneducated in English:

uneducated

adjectiveʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪdˌənˈɛdʒəˌkeɪdəd
  • Having or showing a poor level of education.

    the workforce remains largely uneducated and unskilled
    women from uneducated backgrounds
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Chess took advantage of Willie Dixon because he was black, because he was poor and uneducated.
    • I expected West Virginia to be full of uneducated poor white people of Scot and Irish descent.
    • The meat packing industry is a huge draw for poor, largely, uneducated illegal aliens.
    • Would I make the same amount of money as a janitor with an eighth grade education, an uneducated laborer?
    • These tax cuts will be for the benefit of the high earners at the expense of the poorest, the uneducated and the most vulnerable people in our society.
    • If they are not oil rich sheikhs who plunder their country, they are poor uneducated townsfolk who desperately want to be liberated.
    • Women who are poor and uneducated are often still at the mercy of abusive partners or relatives.
    • Some of these killings were perpetrated by people who were poor and uneducated, but others were not.
    • Unfortunately, much of the world is poor and uneducated and our system simply will not work as well as we would assume.
    • Again, he faced obstacles because many people were uneducated and led a simple life.
    • I felt that I'd had the best education money can buy, and yet I was completely uneducated.
    • But he did scoop up the shares of those too poor and uneducated to appreciate their potential value.
    • The problem is that entry level jobs are generally where uneducated people go to get skills.
    • The country is too big, too poor, too uneducated and too unstable to give political power to the people, they say.
    • Movies about poor, uneducated mothers forced to work punishing jobs are even rarer.
    • Modern readers of the gospels usually assume that the disciples were poor and uneducated.
    • They know that as long as the population in these areas remain uneducated and illiterate, they will never be removed.
    • The people were very poor and uneducated and had a poor quality of life.
    • And a lot of our people are elderly and a lot of them are uneducated, illiterate.
    • I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how ignorant and uneducated our student population actually is.
    Synonyms
    untaught, unschooled, ill-educated, untutored, untrained, unread, unscholarly, illiterate, unlettered, ignorant, ill-informed, uninformed, lowbrow
    uncouth, unsophisticated, uncultivated, uncultured, unaccomplished, unenlightened, philistine, benighted, backward, vulgar, simple
    archaic rude

Derivatives

  • uneducable

  • adjectiveʌnˈɛdjʊkəb(ə)lˌənˈɛdʒəkəb(ə)l
    • (of a person) unable to be educated or taught.

      dismissing your opponents as uneducable serves no useful purpose
      Example sentencesExamples
      • narrow-minded and uneducable reactionaries
      • That isn't the problem, not unless you happen to be a Tory of the uneducable, unflinching sort.
      • He is, in all likelihood, uneducable on this point.
      • ‘We've come a long way from the days when profoundly handicapped people were considered uneducable,’ he adds, ‘but services haven't caught up with demand, or recognised that their needs are very expensive.’

Rhymes

overeducated, self-educated, undereducated
 
 

Definition of uneducated in US English:

uneducated

adjectiveˌənˈejəˌkādədˌənˈɛdʒəˌkeɪdəd
  • Lacking an education; poorly educated.

    the workforce remains largely uneducated and unskilled
    women from uneducated backgrounds
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Again, he faced obstacles because many people were uneducated and led a simple life.
    • The people were very poor and uneducated and had a poor quality of life.
    • They know that as long as the population in these areas remain uneducated and illiterate, they will never be removed.
    • Women who are poor and uneducated are often still at the mercy of abusive partners or relatives.
    • If they are not oil rich sheikhs who plunder their country, they are poor uneducated townsfolk who desperately want to be liberated.
    • Would I make the same amount of money as a janitor with an eighth grade education, an uneducated laborer?
    • The country is too big, too poor, too uneducated and too unstable to give political power to the people, they say.
    • Movies about poor, uneducated mothers forced to work punishing jobs are even rarer.
    • I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how ignorant and uneducated our student population actually is.
    • Modern readers of the gospels usually assume that the disciples were poor and uneducated.
    • The problem is that entry level jobs are generally where uneducated people go to get skills.
    • And a lot of our people are elderly and a lot of them are uneducated, illiterate.
    • I felt that I'd had the best education money can buy, and yet I was completely uneducated.
    • But he did scoop up the shares of those too poor and uneducated to appreciate their potential value.
    • The meat packing industry is a huge draw for poor, largely, uneducated illegal aliens.
    • Unfortunately, much of the world is poor and uneducated and our system simply will not work as well as we would assume.
    • Chess took advantage of Willie Dixon because he was black, because he was poor and uneducated.
    • Some of these killings were perpetrated by people who were poor and uneducated, but others were not.
    • These tax cuts will be for the benefit of the high earners at the expense of the poorest, the uneducated and the most vulnerable people in our society.
    • I expected West Virginia to be full of uneducated poor white people of Scot and Irish descent.
    Synonyms
    untaught, unschooled, ill-educated, untutored, untrained, unread, unscholarly, illiterate, unlettered, ignorant, ill-informed, uninformed, lowbrow
 
 
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