Unlettered vs Ignorant - What's the difference?
unlettered | ignorant | Related terms |
not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
not expressed in or marked with letters
Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
* Tillotson
* Dryden
(slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
(obsolete) unknown; undiscovered
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
* Shakespeare
Unlettered is a related term of ignorant.
As an adjective unlettered
is not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read.As a noun ignorant is
ignorant person, ignoramus.unlettered
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* unletterednessignorant
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Alternative forms
* ignoraunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.
- Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.
- His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant .
- ignorant concealment
- Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
- His shipping, / Poor ignorant baubles! — on our terrible seas, / Like eggshells moved.