What is another word for illiterate?
308 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪlˈɪtəɹət], [ ɪlˈɪtəɹət], [ ɪ_l_ˈɪ_t_ə_ɹ_ə_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for illiterate:- all (adjective)
- empty-headed (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- low-browed (adjective)
- lowbrowed (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- rude (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- uneducated (adjective)
- uninstructed (adjective)
- unlearned (adjective)
- unscholarly (adjective)
- unschooled (adjective)
- untrained (adjective)
- analphabetic (noun)
- fool (noun)
- functionally illiterate (noun)
- illiterate (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Illiterate:
adj.
•all (adjective) •empty-headed (adjective)- more know-nothing,
- empty headed,
- more knownothing,
- know nothing,
- knownothing,
- most knownothing,
- more know nothing,
- most know nothing,
- most know-nothing.
- witless,
- brainless,
- foolish,
- birdbrained,
- unlettered,
- nescient,
- misinformed,
- study at ignorant,
- unknowledgeable,
- cretinous,
- unread,
- shallower,
- unlearned,
- unconscious,
- Unconversant,
- unmindful,
- apprenticed,
- mindless,
- uninstructed,
- uninformed,
- unintelligent,
- shallow,
- uneducated,
- unscholarly,
- unintellectual,
- blind to.
- lowbrow,
- rude,
- bad-mannered,
- Inerudite,
- ignorant,
- untrained,
- simple,
- empty-headed,
- emptyheaded,
- know-nothing,
- brutish.
- more bad-mannered,
- un civilized,
- bad mannered,
- un mannerly,
- more brutish,
- most badmannered,
- in-solent,
- un civil,
- most bad mannered,
- dis courteous,
- un-couth,
- in solent,
- more bad mannered,
- un-mannerly,
- un polished,
- most bad-mannered,
- un gracious,
- un-civil,
- badmannered,
- most brutish,
- un-gracious,
- un couth,
- un-civilized,
- more badmannered,
- dis-courteous.
n.
•analphabetic (noun) •fool (noun)- fool,
- twerp,
- fatheads,
- lamebrain,
- sillies,
- dunderheads,
- twerps,
- fathead,
- illiterates,
- fools,
- half-wit,
- birdbrain,
- lamebrains,
- Geese,
- birdbrains,
- tomfool,
- schmo,
- ninny,
- goose,
- gooses,
- dumb ox,
- Mooncalf,
- innocents,
- moron,
- turkey,
- softhead,
- lightweights,
- dunderhead,
- halfwit.
Other synonyms:
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- inexperienced,
- penmanship,
- cursive,
- speller,
- impressionable,
- ill-informed,
- disorientated,
- stenography,
- sheltered,
- unsuspecting,
- Graphology,
- longhand,
- ingenuous,
- untried,
- unknowingly,
- jungli,
- oblivious,
- handwritten,
- unacquainted,
- ignorance,
- fledgling,
- unseeing,
- calligraphy,
- inexperience,
- misspell,
- spelling,
- unaware,
- handwriting,
- callow,
- lay,
- naive,
- orthography.
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- shaky,
- barbarous,
- heedless,
- crabbed,
- armchair,
- unsophisticated,
- spell out,
- spidery,
- rough-and-ready,
- scrawl,
- rough-hewn,
- dewy-eyed,
- wide-eyed,
- scholar,
- unschooled,
- Steno,
- unrefined,
- unfamiliar,
- insensitive,
- uncultivated,
- innocence,
- hazy.
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- scribble,
- veil,
- innocent,
- unreadable.
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- stump.
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- blind.
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- spell.
- dunce,
- pandemonium,
- ignoramus,
- layman,
- superficial,
- booby,
- dupe,
- Bookless,
- dolt,
- analphabet,
- greeny,
- wasteful,
- joke,
- gull,
- pedantic,
- unguided,
- unbriefed,
- gross,
- agitation,
- blunt,
- disorder,
- greenhorn,
- middlebrow,
- unstudious,
- philistine,
- ass,
- undereducated,
- Mistaught,
- clownish,
- unliterary,
- unknowing,
- dummy,
- confusion,
- dilettante,
- uncivilized,
- commotion,
- heathen,
- schmuck,
- low-browed,
- unbookish,
- dabbler,
- blockhead,
- disturbance,
- unwitting,
- untaught,
- hoodwinked,
- Grammarless,
- gothic,
- nonintellectual,
- catachrestic,
- chaos,
- illiteracy,
- unedified,
- buffoon,
- barbaric,
- Half-learned,
- ungrammatical,
- benighted,
- nonliterate,
- empty,
- uneducated person,
- clown,
- ill-educated,
- uncultured,
- tenderfoot,
- dizzy,
- led astray,
- Deceived,
- pagan,
- Solecistic,
- idiot,
- misinstructed,
- unversed,
- bewilderment,
- unbooked,
- unenlightened,
- clutter,
- disarray.
Paraphrases for Illiterate:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
non-literate.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
literacy.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Exclusion
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Adjective
literate.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
illiteracy.
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Noun, singular or mass
illiteracy.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Illiterate:
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adj.
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all
literate.
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unable to read well; lacking education
educated, learned, taught, intelligent, able.
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Other antonyms:
instructed, acquainted, aware, trained, skilled, sage, intellectual, wise, schooled, polymath, idiomatic, knowledgeable, grammatical, cultivated, well-informed, highbrow, literary, belletristic, scholarly, experienced, expert, brilliant, erudite, smart, sophisticated, well-read.
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all
Hypernym for Illiterate:
n.
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person
analphabet, functional illiterate, analphabetic.
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person
Hyponym for Illiterate:
n.
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person
uneducated person, know nothing, ignoramus.
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person