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# uneducated

adjective (uneducated)

«uneducated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Uneducated means having had little or no schooling or education. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#m1)
2. Uneducated can also describe speech, writing or guesses that show little knowledge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and social studies: in the past many children were uneducated because they had to work; today education is a right. Using it about a person's speech can be rude and snobbish, since dialects are not uneducated. Phrase: «an uneducated guess» (joking opposite of «an educated guess»).

### Examples

- In Victorian times many poor children were uneducated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x1)
- Free schools mean fewer people grow up uneducated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x2)
- Being uneducated is not the same as being unintelligent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x3)
- My first answer was just an uneducated guess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x4)
- Malala fought so girls would not stay uneducated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x5)
- Calling someone uneducated because of their accent is unfair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x6)
- The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x7)

### Note

Opposite: «educated». Be careful: calling people «uneducated» can be hurtful. Lack of schooling is often caused by poverty or unfair rules, not by the person.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «uneducated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«uneducated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/uneducated.html) on Mova free.