unlettered

English

Etymology

un- +‎ lettered

Adjective

unlettered (not comparable)

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, pages 159–178 and 287:
  […] an unlettered seaman […]
not expressed in or marked with letters

Derived terms

unletteredness

Translations

not well educated; unable to read

Bulgarian: неграмотен (bg) (negramoten)
French: illettré (fr)
Greek:
Ancient Greek: ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos)
Hungarian: analfabéta (hu), írástudatlan (hu), tanulatlan (hu), iskolázatlan (hu)
Latin: illitterātus
Serbo-Croatian: nepismen (sh), analfabet (sh)

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