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unlettered

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++un·let·tered /ʌnˈletəd $ -ərd/ adjective formal  STUPID/NOT INTELLIGENTunable to read, or uneducated 文盲的;未受教育的 SYN illiterate
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unletteredTheir ideas gain plausibility amongst the idle, the envious and the unlettered.His lifelong political rival, the charismatic, unlettered Eric Gairy, mocked Blaize's kindly manner as weakness.The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens.How could the testimony of an unlettered rustic stand against the authority of an Aristotle?
un·let·tered adjectiveChineseSyllable
read, to or uneducated unable Corpus


unlettered
unlettered /ʌnˈletəd $ -ərd/ adjective formal
unable to read, or uneducated
   SYN  illiterate


un·let·teredBrE /ˌʌnˈletəd/ 🔊NAmE /ˌʌnˈletərd/ 🔊 adjective (formal) unable to read 不识字的;文盲的