From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" [ant: {enlightened}]
2: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" [syn: {uninstructed}]
3: lacking general education or knowledge; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions" [syn: {ignorant}, {nescient}, {unlearned}, {unlettered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "unenlightened": ableptical, amaurotic, awkward, benighted, bereft of light, blankminded, blind, callow, color-blind, dark, dim-sighted, dumb, empty, empty-headed, eyeless, gauche, green, groping, hemeralopic, ignorant, in darkness, inane, inexperienced, innocent, know-nothing, mind-blind, naive, nescient, nyctalopic, raw, rayless, sightless, simple, spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, strange to, tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant, undiscerning, unfamiliar, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent, unknowing, unobserving, unperceiving, unposted, unprogressive, unripe, unseeing, unsure, unversed, vacuous, visionless
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