UNINFORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninformed mean? 

• UNINFORMED (adjective)
  The adjective UNINFORMED has 1 sense:

1. not informed; lacking in knowledge or information

  Familiarity information: UNINFORMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINFORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not informed; lacking in knowledge or information

Context example:

the uninformed public

Similar:

clueless (totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring)

ignorant; unknowing; unknowledgeable; unwitting (unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge)

innocent; unacquainted (not knowledgeable about something specified)

newsless (not having or receiving news or information)

unadvised (having received no information)

naive; unenlightened; uninstructed (lacking information or instruction)

unread (not informed through reading)

Also:

uneducated (not having a good education)

unenlightened (not enlightened; ignorant)

naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)

Antonym:

informed (having much knowledge or education)

 Context examples 

You cannot suppose me uninformed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath, it may be stated, for the reader's more certain information, lest the following pages should otherwise fail of giving any idea of what her character is meant to be, that her heart was affectionate; her disposition cheerful and open, without conceit or affectation of any kind—her manners just removed from the awkwardness and shyness of a girl; her person pleasing, and, when in good looks, pretty—and her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)