1. Descriptive of someone who is uneducated in general, lacks knowledge, and is incapable of understanding complex issues: Sometimes it is very difficult to find a well-paid job when a person is unlettered, is unlearned, or even illiterate.
2. Pertaining to something which is not marked with the characters of the alphabet: When walking slowly through the old cemetery looking for the tombstone or her great-great-grandmother, Janet came across an unlettered one with lots of ivy growing over it and wondered who had been buried there.
3. Etymology: un-, "not" + lettered, "knowledgeable, educated." © ALL rights are reserved.

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