with very limited knowledge and scanty information; be all by himself in some backwoods, he knows little of what is going on in the world of affairs.; be cut off from the world; be sequestered from the community and be thus poorly informed; ignorant; ignorant and illinformed; illinformed; live in a backwater; out of touch with the outside world and ignorant of the state of affairs; poorly read and ignorant; (He) received very little intelligence about the world outside; rude and with no experience; seeing and hearing little; shut up in his retreat; solitary and inexperienced