Usually means: Lacking awareness, knowledge, or education.
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  1. unenlightened: Merriam-Webster
  2. unenlightened: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unenlightened: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unenlightened: Vocabulary.com
  5. unenlightened: Wordnik
  6. unenlightened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unenlightened: Wiktionary
  8. unenlightened: Dictionary.com
  9. unenlightened: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. unenlightened: Rhymezone
  11. unenlightened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unenlightened: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unenlightened: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unenlightened: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.

Similar:
uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, ignorant, nescient, uninstructed, benighted, dark, unilluminating, more...

Opposite:
enlightened, enlightening, enlightenment

Types:
ignorant, stupid, dumb, idiotic, brainless, moronic, more...


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Similar:
uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, ignorant, nescient, uninstructed, benighted, dark, unilluminating, more...

Opposite:
enlightened, enlightening, enlightenment

Types:
ignorant, stupid, dumb, idiotic, brainless, moronic, more...



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