Uneducated; lacking formal schooling or learning; illiterate or ignorant of formal education.
彼は戦時中に学校に行けなかったため無学だが、仕事は非常に器用だ。
He missed school during the war and is uneducated, but he is very skilled at his job.
無学を理由に差別することは許されない。
Discriminating against someone because they are uneducated is unacceptable.
この地域には無学で読み書きのできない高齢者がいる。
There are elderly people in this area who are uneducated and cannot read or write.
In Buddhism, an arhat or person who has attained nirvana (a religious/technical term for an enlightened one).
古い仏典の中で無学と称される人物の逸話が紹介されている。
Classical Buddhist texts contain stories about people referred to as arhats.