Unlettered

Definition: Unlettered

Unlettered

Adjective

1. Having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society".

2. 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".

Date "unlettered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Unlettered

Synonyms: analphabetic (adj), ignorant (adj), nescient (adj), unenlightened (adj), unlearned (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ignorance	Shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic;
	Phrase: "ignorance never settles a question"; quantum animis erroris inest!; "small Latin and less Greek"; "that unlettered small-knowing soul"; "there is no darkness but ignorance".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unlettered

English words defined with "unlettered": analphabetic ♦ ignorant ♦ nescient ♦ unenlightened, unlearned. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Reminiscences of an Unlettered Man: Robert Barclay, 1850-1924: Farm Servant, Tailor and Postman in Forgue and Auchterless (reference) The game of creation : the primeval unlettered language of Moby Dick, or, The whale (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unlettered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlettered" is used about 10 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%	10	111,207

Expression using "unlettered": unlettered man. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unlettered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pamësuar (artless, inexpert, raw, unaccustomed, uncustomary, undisciplined, unfamiliar, unlearned, unused), analfabet (bookless, illiterate, letterless). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مثقف (boorish, philistine, uncultivated, uneducated, untutored), ‏غير مرسوم بأحرف, ‏جاهل (artless, benighted, blockhead, ignorant, illiterate, innocent, nescient, primitive, raw, rude, simple, unaware, untaught), ‏أمي (illiterate). (various references)

Bulgarian		неграмотен (illiterate, uneducated), невеж (ignorant, unenlightened, ungrounded, unlearned, unstudied, untutored), необразован (benighted, ignorant, illiterate, letterless, unaccomplished, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored), неначетен (unread). (various references)

Czech		negramotný (illiterate), málo sèetlý. (various references)

Farsi		نادان (Asinine, Fool, Ignorant, Inept, Silly, Simple, Untaught, Unwise, Yokel), درس نخوانده (Illiterate, Untaught), بی سواد (Illiterate). (various references)

Finnish		oppimaton (ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, untutored). (various references)

French		illettré (uncultivated). (various references)

German		ungebildet (ignorant, illiterately, low brow, low-bred, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, uninformed, unschooled, untutored). (various references)

Greek		αγράμματοσ (ignorant, illiterate, uneducated). (various references)

Hebrew		בור (crude, hole, ignorant, illiterate, lout, uncultivated). (various references)

Hungarian		mûveletlen (barbaric, bookless, ignorant, uncivilized, uncultivated). (various references)

Italian		incolto (barbaric, fallow, illiterate, illiterately, neglected, refracted, uncultivated, uneducated, unkempt, unschooled, waste, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin		etteredunlay

Portuguese		sem letras (letterless), iletrado (illiterate, letterless, unbookish, unlearned, unread, untaught), ignorante (artless, benighted, dunce, heathen, ignoramus, ignorant, know-nothing, letterless, nescient, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, unintelligent, unlearned, unnurtured, unposted, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed), analfabeto (illiterate). (various references)

Romanian		necitit (unreadable), incult (barbarous, dark, illiberal, illiterate, unaccomplished, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned), analfabet (illiterate, marksman, uneducated), agramat. (various references)

Russian		неграмотный (illiterate, letterless, ungrammatical), необразованный (bookless, dark, illiterate, letterless, uneducated, unnurtured). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepismen (illiterate), neobrazovan (letterless, underbred, uneducated, untutored). (various references)

Spanish		indocto (ignorant, unlearned, untutored), analfabeto (illiterate, unlearned). (various references)

Swedish		olärd (illiterate, unread), föga beläst (unread). (various references)

Turkish		yazısız (blank, clean, unwritten-on), yazılmamış (unrecorded, unwritten), okuması yazması olmayan, okumamış (illiterate, uneducated, unenlightened, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught), cahil (benighted, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unread, untutored, yahoo). (various references)

Ukrainian		непідписаний (unsigned), неписьменний (illiterate, letterless, marksman, unbooked). (various references)

Vietnamese		mù chữ; không được đi học; dốt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	illiteratus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Unlettered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unfluttered, unlittered. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-n-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: lettered, neutered, relented, telneted, tentered, underlet, unletted, unreeled.
	-3 letters: denture, detente, entered, lunette, needler, nettled, nettler, retuned, rundlet, tenured, trundle, turtled, uttered.
	-4 letters: delete, detent, dueler, eluder, eluent, eluted, endure, entree, enured, eterne, leered, lender, letted, letter, lunted, needer, needle, netted, netter, nettle, neuter, nurled, nutlet, nutted, nutter, reeled, relend, relent, rented, retene.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-n-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: launderette.
	+2 letters: launderettes, turtlenecked.
	+5 letters: internucleotide.
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