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unenlightened

 
Thesaurus: unenlightened
 

adjective

  1. Exhibiting lack of education or knowledge: backward, benighted, ignorant, primitive. See knowledge/ignorance.
  2. Not aware or informed: ignorant, innocent, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing, unwitting. Idioms: in the dark. See knowledge/ignorance.

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IN BRIEF: adj. - Uneducated in general; Lacking information or instruction.

 
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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: not enlightened; ignorant
  Antonym: enlightened (meaning #2)

Meaning #2: lacking information or instruction
  Synonym: uninstructed

Meaning #3: lacking general education or knowledge
  Synonyms: ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettered


 
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - uoplyst

Nederlands (Dutch)
niet op de hoogte, onontwikkeld, bijgelovig

Français (French)
adj. - borné

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unaufgeklärt, nicht erleuchtet

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αδιαφώτιστος, απληροφόρητος, αμαθής

Italiano (Italian)
ignorante

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - inculto

Русский (Russian)
непросвещенный, неосведомленный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - no instruido, poco ilustrado, ignorante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - oupplyst, okunnig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
无知的, 不文明的, 无偏见的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 無知的, 不文明的, 無偏見的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 계몽되지 않은, 미개의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 啓発されていない, 未開の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غير مثقف, غير متنور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮בור, לא מחונך, לא יודע, טועה, בעל דעה קדומה, לא נאור‬


 
 
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