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Unlearned

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

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Naive 84% connected

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Naive 84% connected

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Ignorant 92% connected

Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Innate 92% connected

Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unconditioned 92% connected

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

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Acquire verb · 78% connection

gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"

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Agnoiology noun · 78% connection

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

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Agrammatist noun · 78% connection

A illiterate person.

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Ain't unknown · 78% connection

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.

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Artless adjective · 78% connection

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

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Boeotian noun · 78% connection

A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.

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Borrel noun · 78% connection

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

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Catchpenny adjective · 78% connection

Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.

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Cobweb noun · 78% connection

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

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Empiric noun · 78% connection

One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates…

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Empiricism noun · 78% connection

Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and…

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Eye dialect noun · 78% connection

the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

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Fee-faw-fum noun · 78% connection

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.

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Goth noun · 78% connection

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

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Han't unknown · 78% connection

A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

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Idiot noun · 78% connection

An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

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Ignoramus noun · 78% connection

We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient e…

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