Definition for Unlettered:

• having little acquaintance with writing; " special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society"

Synonyms for Unlettered:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • analphabetic,
  • unlettered.
  •dark (adjective)
  • unenlightened,
  • benighted,
  • uncultivated,
  • unread.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • shallow,
  • unconscious,
  • green,
  • uninformed,
  • insensible,
  • nescient,
  • thick,
  • unlearned,
  • unsuspecting,
  • innocent,
  • uneducated,
  • cretinous,
  • mindless,
  • in the dark,
  • blind to,
  • uninstructed,
  • apprenticed,
  • unscholarly,
  • imbecilic,
  • dark,
  • witless,
  • dense,
  • unintellectual,
  • unmindful,
  • untaught,
  • shallower,
  • moronic,
  • unknowledgeable,
  • oblivious,
  • obtuse,
  • misinformed,
  • Unconversant,
  • unschooled,
  • birdbrained,
  • unwitting.
  •illiterate (adjective)
  • ungrammatical,
  • Solecistic.
  •uncultured (adjective)
  • philistine,
  • uncivilized,
  • coarse,
  • unpolished,
  • rude,
  • crass,
  • uncouth,
  • vulgar,
  • boorish.
  •uneducated (adjective)
  • empty-headed,
  • ignoramus.
  •uninstructed (adjective)
  • un instructed,
  • un-instructed.
  •unintellectual (adjective)
  • low-browed.
  •unscholarly (adjective)
  • unstudious.
  •unschooled (adjective)
  • un schooled,
  • un-schooled.

• n.

  •
  • uninitiated,
  • untrained,
  • be unused to (doing) something,
  • untried,
  • inexperienced,
  • unqualified,
  • naive.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • catachrestic,
  • ignorant,
  • illiterate,
  • lowbrow,
  • uncultured,
  • untutored,
  • Inerudite,
  • emptyheaded,
  • know-nothing.
  •n.
  • person.

Antonyms for Unlettered:

• adj.

  • dark
    encouraging, apparent, illuminated, pleased, visible, hopeful, distinct, lucid, plain, light, evident, moral, bright, shining, luminous, radiant, cheerful, manifest, brilliant, vivid, happy, good.
  • ignorant
    intelligent, wise, learned, taught, aware, talented, experienced, educated, competent, literate, knowledgeable.
  • illiterate
    able.
  • uncultured
    cultured.
  • uneducated
    lettered.
  • Other antonyms:
    polymath, trained, expert, highbrow, sophisticated, instructed, well-informed, sage, schooled, smart, skilled, acquainted.

Unlettered Sentence Examples:

• Longfellow, and Campbell, and Mrs. Hemans, and Macaulay in his Lays, and Scott in his longer poems are the poets of the middle class, of people who have unlearned the unwritten tradition which binds the unlettered, so long as they are masters of themselves, to the beginning of time and to the foundation of the world, and who have not learned the written tradition which has been established upon the unwritten.

• 28. A well lettered man is so because he is well natured, and just as the cause is more admirable than the effect, so is a good disposition, unlettered, more praiseworthy than a well lettered man who is without natural disposition.