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Definition: Unenlightened |
UnenlightenedAdjective1. Not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order". 2. Lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws". 3. Lacking general education or knowledge; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unenlightened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Synonyms: UnenlightenedSynonyms: ignorant (adj), nescient (adj), uninstructed (adj), unlearned (adj), unlettered (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: enlightened (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | Uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age. |
Imbecility Folly | Blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical; apish; simious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unenlightened |
| English words defined with "unenlightened": dark, darkness ♦ Gothic ♦ mediaeval, medieval ♦ uninstructed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unenlightened": IMMIGRANT. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unenlightened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unenlightened" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unenlightened": leave smb. unenlightened ♦ unenlightened person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unenlightened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pandriçuar (unlit), i paedukuar (dark, ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unintelligent, unlearned, unmannerly, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير منور, غير متعلم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суеверен (superstitious), невеж (ignorant, ungrounded, unlearned, unlettered, unstudied, untutored), неосведомен (ignorant, unacquainted, uninformed), непросветен (dark, heathen, natural), предубеден (bigoted, jaundiced, prejudiced, squint eyed, tendentious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閉塞 (blocking, close up, hard to get to, inaccessible, out of the way, stop up), 塞 (piston, stop up, strategic pass, to squeeze in, to stuff). (various references) | |
Czech | neosvícený. (various references) | |
French | rétrograde, peu éclairé, ignorant (unaware, untaught). (various references) | |
German | unerleuchtet (unilluminated). (various references) | |
Greek | αδιαφώτιστοσ (uninformed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nem felvilágosult. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '昧 (enlightenment or civilization, ignorance, uncivilized), 矇昧 (enlightenment or civilization, ignorance, uncivilized), 無知'昧 (in the darkest ignorance), 曚昧 (enlightenment or civilization, ignorance, uncivilized). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むちもうまい (in the darkest ignorance), もうまい (enlightenment or civilization, ignorance, uncivilized). (various references) | |
Manx | neuhoilshit (unadvertized, undeclared, unexhibited, unexplained). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enlightenedunay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem instrução (ungrounded, unposted, unread, unschooled, untutored), não esclarecido (uncleared, unposted), inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, larrikin, low-brow, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unpolished, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild), ignorante (artless, benighted, dunce, heathen, ignoramus, ignorant, know-nothing, letterless, nescient, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, uneducated, uninformed, unintelligent, unlearned, unlettered, unnurtured, unposted, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed). (various references) | |
Romanian | orb (blind, crazy, dim, headlong, reckless, sightless, unseeing), nelãmurit (obscure, shadowy, uncertain, vague, vaguely). (various references) | |
Russian | непросвещенный (illiberal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neprosvećen (benighted, uninformed), neosvetljen (unlit). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin instrucción (illiterate, untaught). (various references) | |
Turkish | okumamış (illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught), cahil (benighted, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, rude, uneducated, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, unread, untutored, yahoo), batıl inançlı, önyargılı (biased, biassed, dyed in the wool, jaundiced, prejudiced, prejudicial). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unenlightened" (pronounced u'nenlī"tund) |
| 8 | -e n l ī" t u n d | enlightened. |
| 6 | -l ī" t u n d | lightened. |
| 5 | -ī" t u n d | brightened, frightened, heightened, tightened. |
| 4 | -t u n d | buttoned, cottoned, destined, disheartened, fattened, flattened, heartened, predestined, shortened, straightened, sweetened, threatened, unbuttoned. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, strengthened, summoned, thickened, thousand, toughened, unburdened, undetermined, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: enlightened. | |
-3 letters: lengthened. | |
-4 letters: enlighten, indulgent, lightened, tunneling, ungenteel, unheeding. | |
-5 letters: deleting, eighteen, lengthen, needling, nineteen, tunneled, unending, ungentle, unhinged, untinged. | |
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