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English
Etymology
From un- + lettered.
Adjective
unlettered (not comparable)
- not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
1928 February, H P 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
Translations
not well educated; unable to read