uneducated
/ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not educated.
Example Sentences
- "Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters."
- "[…] 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)."
- "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)."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
- British English: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/