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Illiterate synonyms

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ignorant
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  1. Shakespeare
  2. Having little knowledge, education, or experience; uneducated; inexperienced
  3. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
uneducated
Not educated.
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  1. Not educated.
unenlightened
Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
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  1. Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
unlettered
Illiterate.
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  1. Illiterate.
  2. Not adept at reading and writing; deficient in the knowledge that can be acquired from books.
  3. Not lettered; ignorant; uneducated
ignorant
Shakespeare
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  1. Shakespeare
  2. Having little knowledge, education, or experience; uneducated; inexperienced
  3. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
nescient
Agnostic
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  1. Agnostic
  2. Lacking knowledge; ignorant
  3. Ignorant, unlearned
uneducated
Not educated.
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  1. Not educated.
unlearned
Of a behavior, not learned; innate.
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  1. Of a behavior, not learned; innate.
  2. Known or acquired without conscious study
  3. Not learned or educated; ignorant
unschooled
Inexperienced in something.
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  1. Inexperienced in something.
  2. Not educated or instructed; having little or no formal schooling.
  3. Not the result of training; natural:
untaught
Acquired without being taught; natural
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  1. Acquired without being taught; natural
  2. Not taught or instructed; uneducated; ignorant
  3. Not instructed; ignorant.
Find another word for illiterate. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for illiterate, like: ignorant, uneducated, unenlightened, unlettered, ignorant, ignorant, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned and unschooled.

Sentence Examples

  • She was illiterate, and with difficulty scrawled an awkward E.

  • Regimental schools impart elementary education to illiterate soldiers.

  • We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

  • No, you can't understand what I learned from that illiterate man--that simple fellow.

  • Aymer was illiterate, ignorant of the English language, and wholly secular in his mode of life.

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