Usually means: Lacking formal education or literacy.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word unlettered:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. unlettered: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unlettered: Merriam-Webster
  3. unlettered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unlettered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unlettered: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unlettered: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unlettered, unlettered: Wordnik
  8. unlettered: Wiktionary
  9. unlettered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unlettered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unlettered: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unlettered: Dictionary.com
  13. unlettered: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unlettered: Rhymezone
  15. unlettered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. unlettered: FreeDictionary.org
  17. unlettered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. unlettered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unlettered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unlettered: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
▸ adjective:  not expressed in or marked with letters

Similar:
unlearned, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unenlightened, nescient, analphabetic, unalphabeted, ungrammared, unread, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, learned, versed, erudite
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Similar:
unlearned, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unenlightened, nescient, analphabetic, unalphabeted, ungrammared, unread, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, learned, versed, erudite



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