Stupid
Stupid adjective - Not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily.
Usage example: don't ask stupid questions
Uneducated and stupid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Uneducated" instead an adjective "Stupid".
Uneducated
Uneducated adjective - Lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books.
Usage example: a literary reference that could not be grasped by an uneducated person
Stupid and uneducated are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stupid" instead an adjective "Uneducated".
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- She's virtually uneducated, so when she was a child, all her peers wrote her off for looking stupid.
Source: Video Game / Capoeira Fighter - Book Dumb: Steapa is a fairly extreme example — illiterate and uneducated, he strikes most people (including Uhtred) as utterly stupid.
Source: Literature / The Saxon Stories -
Odd thing, though — if you play a half-orc they have the same base intelligence stat, and a lot of the orcs you can talk to don't really seem stupid or violent at all, just uneducated and underprivileged.
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