Unlearned: alternatives and connections

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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

A illiterate person.

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

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

Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

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

The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

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

One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran an…

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

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

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…