unlettered in English

adjective
1
(of a person) poorly educated or illiterate.
It seems common to consider the MFDP as a group of uneducated farmers or unlettered peasants, yet it was this party and these people who put their lives on the line in one of the most courageous acts of African political expression.

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1. 2 synonyms for Analphabetic: analphabet, unlettered

2. He knew that many of them were “unlettered and ordinary.”

3. However, many of those early disciples were “unlettered and ordinary.”

4. Synonyms for Analphabetic include illiterate, nonliterate, unlettered, unread, uneducated, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, untutored and benighted

5. 13 His lifelong political rival, the charismatic, unlettered Eric Gairy, mocked Blaize's kindly manner as weakness.

6. From the viewpoint of the elitist rulers, Peter and John were “men unlettered and ordinary” who had no right to teach in the temple.

7. Adj Analphabetic having little acquaintance with writing "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society" adj Analphabetic relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic n Analphabetic an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet

8. The Bluebell's Latin name, Hyacinthoides, comes from a Greek myth: when the Prince Hyacinthus died, the tears of the god Apollo spelled the word 'alas' on the petals of the hyacinth flower that sprang up from his blood.Non-scriptameans unlettered and distinguishes the Bluebell from the similar-looking hyacinth.

9. Numerous disciples , religious heads , heads of monasteries , poets and scholars in Tamil and Sanskrit , rural and provincial magnates , government officials , people of importance , and unlettered people , gathered round him , revering him as a yogic adept and spiritual master , a poet and scholar .