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# uneducated

«uneducated» in Mova's school dictionary: **having had little or no schooling or education** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (uneducated)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Uneducated means having had little or no schooling or education. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x1)
- Free schools mean fewer people grow up uneducated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x2)
- Being uneducated is not the same as being unintelligent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x3)
- My first answer was just an uneducated guess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x4)
- Malala fought so girls would not stay uneducated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/#x5)
- Calling someone uneducated because of their accent is unfair. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «uneducated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/uneducated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.