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illiterate
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of ILLITERATE
1
violating approved patterns of speaking and writing <most of the messages left on the Web site's bulletin board are illiterate>
Synonyms ungrammatical
Near Antonyms idiomatic
Antonyms grammatical
2
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books <offered menus with pictures, presumably for the many illiterate people who must eat there>
Synonyms analphabetic, benighted, dark, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored
Related Words functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable; artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured; callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve); unsophisticated; raw, unskilled, untrained; brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless; foolish, senseless, silly
Near Antonyms brilliant, intelligent, smart; experienced, expert, trained; erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly; cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual; sophisticated; acquainted, aware, familiar
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