uninformed
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Uninformed means lacking knowledge or awareness about something: uninformed voters, an uninformed decision.
The word often carries mild criticism—suggesting someone should have known better or done their research.
To keep someone uninformed is to withhold information from them.
Compare misinformed, which means having wrong information rather than none.
Lacking knowledge of something
- ignorantLacking knowledge or awareness
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unenlightenedLacking awareness or knowledge
uninitiated · unacquainted · unversed · unfamiliar · unbriefed · uninstructed · untutored · unschooled
Lacking any awareness
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- unmindfulLacking awareness or attention
inattentive · unobservant · blind · unseeing · deaf · unperceptive · unnoticing · incognizant
Easily deceived
- credulousProne to blind trust
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- trustingInclined to believe others
- impressionableEasily influenced or affected
ingenuous · innocent · green · unworldly · guileless · artless · wide-eyed · inexperienced
Misled into false belief
- misguidedBased on poor judgment
- dupedDeceived into believing
- hoodwinkedTricked into believing falsely
- deludedWrongly convinced of falsehoods
bamboozled · manipulated · misinstructed · brainwashed · propagandized · indoctrinated · conned · tricked
unaware
Lacking knowledge of something
- ignorantLacking knowledge or awareness
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
unenlightened · uninitiated · unacquainted · unversed · unfamiliar · unbriefed · uninstructed · untutored · unschooled · clueless
oblivious
Lacking any awareness
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
- heedlessCareless of consequences
unmindful · inattentive · unobservant · blind · unseeing · deaf · unperceptive · unnoticing · incognizant · unwitting
gullible
Easily deceived
- credulousProne to blind trust
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- trustingInclined to believe others
impressionable · ingenuous · innocent · green · unworldly · guileless · artless · wide-eyed · inexperienced · unsuspecting
deceived
Misled into false belief
- misguidedBased on poor judgment
- dupedDeceived into believing
- hoodwinkedTricked into believing falsely
deluded · bamboozled · manipulated · misinstructed · brainwashed · propagandized · indoctrinated · conned · tricked · fooled
- political apathyvoter apathy, political apathy, nonvoting, non-voting, low turnout
- confusionconfusion, confused, bewilderment, perplexity, baffled
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- out of touchdisconnected, oblivious, unaware, clueless, detached
- unreadyunprepared, ill-prepared, ill-equipped, unready, not ready
uninformedinformed
Given necessary knowledge
knowledgeable · well-informed · aware · conversant · cognizant