unlettered

unlettered

English

Etymology

un- +‎ lettered

Adjective

unlettered (not comparable)

1. not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
   • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., OCLC 55045234, pages 159–178 and 287:

     […] an unlettered seaman […]

2. not expressed in or marked with letters

Derived terms

• unletteredness

Translations

not well educated; unable to read

Bulgarian: неграмотен (bg) (negramoten) Hungarian: analfabéta (hu), írástudatlan (hu), tanulatlan (hu), iskolázatlan (hu) Serbo-Croatian: nepismen (sh), analfabet (sh)