undereducated

1. 1.

   poorly or insufficiently educated

   Similaruneducated

Questions about undereducated

What does undereducated mean?

undereducated means "poorly or insufficiently educated".

How many syllables are in undereducated?

undereducated has 6 syllables and divides as un-de-re-du-ca-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is undereducated a common word?

undereducated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.