Synonyms of the word

unenlightened

• adj. Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.

benighted

• adj. plunged into darkness.
• adj. overtaken by night.
• adj. lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of benight.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

ignorant

• adj. Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
• adj. (slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
• adj. (obsolete) unknown; undiscovered.
• adj. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
• n. One who is ignorant.

naive

• adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated; against better judgement.
• adj. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
• adj. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

nescient

• n. an ignorant person.
• n. an unbeliever holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the…
• adj. ignorant, unlearned.
• adj. unbelieving.

uneducated

• adj. not educated.

uninformed

• adj. not informed; ignorant.

uninstructed

• adj. Not instructed.
• adj. (archaic) uneducated.

unlearned

• adj. Of a person, ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
• adj. Of a behavior, not learned; innate.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of unlearn.

unlettered

• adj. not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read.
• adj. not expressed in or marked with letters.