unlettered

adj

1. (figuratively, not-comparable)Not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.

   “[…]that vnletered ſmall knowing ſoule[…]”

   “Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.”

   “They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman.”

   “But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered.”

   “[…] an unlettered seaman […]”

2. (not-comparable)Not expressed in or marked with letters.