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unlettered::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | analphabetic |
special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society.
Examples of unlettered
unlettered
Many trial participants are too unlettered to understand what is going on.
From the economist.com
People this poor have no collateral, no business experience and are often unlettered.
From the economist.com
Some of the improvised dialogue is four-lettered, most of it unlettered.
From the time.com
This unlettered man caught the good will of a continent and books were written about him.
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Every language, even unlettered language is capable of rendering justice.
From the economist.com
Her unlettered Haitian relatives call her a jounalis, a journalist writing with a purpose.
From the boston.com
The GOP is, effectively, the party of willfully unlettered Utopians.
From the theatlantic.com
Often, that means the perspectives of the literate and the literary trump those of the unlettered.
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Have the staffing cuts gone too deep, leaving behind only the unlettered and unaware in the newsroom?
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- Analphabetic: having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society"
- Ignorant: uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
- Not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read; not expressed in or marked with letters
- (unletteredness) The state or condition of being unlettered; illiteracy
- Uneducated in a formal sense. To some it means illiterate. The word is used only once in NW, at Acts 4:13, where Peter and John are recognized as being ``unlettered and ordinary''. It is clear that they were certainly not illiterate. ...
