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US
/ˌənɛnˈɫaɪtənd/
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[ UK /ˌʌnɛnlˈaɪtənd/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɛnlˈaɪtənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking information or instruction
lamentably unenlightened as to the laws -
not enlightened; ignorant
the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
How To Use unenlightened In A Sentence
- I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
- I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
- Within the political class, it is standard fare to bemoan lack of engagement among the unenlightened masses.
- Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
- the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
- In this regard we in our time are strangely unenlightened.
- The soul chooses to remain in darkness, unevolved and unenlightened.
- In this way, all unenlightened experience is fabricated by the various aspects of the mind as it generates a false self and projects delusory objects onto reality.
- You would be forgiven for thinking that such sentiments had been mouthed by a male chauvinist in the 19th century, or that they are perhaps a parody of our ancestors' unenlightened mindset.
- Unfortunately, Bradford Council has shown an unenlightened attitude and needs to be persuaded otherwise.