308 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪlˈɪtəɹət], [ ɪlˈɪtəɹət], [ ɪ_l_ˈɪ_t_ə_ɹ_ə_t]

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)

Paraphrases for illiterate

Hypernyms for illiterate

Hyponyms for illiterate

Synonyms for Illiterate:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • illiterate.
  • empty-headed (adjective)
  • more know-nothing,
  • empty headed,
  • more knownothing,
  • know nothing,
  • knownothing,
  • most knownothing,
  • more know nothing,
  • most know nothing,
  • most know-nothing.
  • ignorant (adjective)
  • 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.
  • low-browed (adjective)
  • low browed.
  • lowbrowed (adjective)
  • lowbrowed,
  • untutored.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • lowbrow,
  • rude,
  • bad-mannered,
  • Inerudite,
  • ignorant,
  • untrained,
  • simple,
  • empty-headed,
  • emptyheaded,
  • know-nothing,
  • brutish.
  • rude (adjective)
  • 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.
  • simple (adjective)
  • nitwitted,
  • halfwitted,
  • softheaded,
  • Soft-headed.
  • uneducated (adjective)
  • more lowbrow,
  • most ignoramus,
  • in erudite,
  • in-erudite,
  • most inerudite,
  • more ignoramus,
  • more inerudite,
  • most lowbrow,
  • un educated,
  • un-educated.
  • uninstructed (adjective)
  • un instructed,
  • un-instructed.
  • unlearned (adjective)
  • un-learned,
  • un-versed,
  • un learned,
  • un versed.
  • unscholarly (adjective)
  • more unstudious,
  • un studious,
  • un-studious,
  • un scholarly,
  • un-scholarly,
  • most unstudious.
  • unschooled (adjective)
  • un schooled,
  • un-schooled.
  • untrained (adjective)
  • un qualified,
  • un trained,
  • un disciplined,
  • most novice,
  • un skilled,
  • more novice,
  • un-trained,
  • un-qualified,
  • un tamed,
  • un-tamed,
  • un prepared,
  • un-prepared,
  • un-skilled.

• n.

  •
  • unqualified,
  • be unused to (doing) something,
  • uninitiated.
  •
  • knowledge,
  • lost.
  • analphabetic (noun)
  • analphabetic.
  • 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.
  • functionally illiterate (noun)
  • functionally illiterate.
  • illiterate (noun)
  • nonreader,
  • semiliterate,
  • illiterate person,
  • preliterate.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • simples.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • 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.
  •
  • green,
  • writing,
  • removed,
  • decipher,
  • insensible,
  • blindly,
  • write,
  • printing.
  •
  • scribble,
  • veil,
  • innocent,
  • unreadable.
  •
  • raw,
  • script.
  •
  • stump.
  •
  • blind.
  •
  • spell.
  •
  • hand,
  • print.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    non-literate.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    blind, literacy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    literacy.

• Exclusion

  • Adjective
    literate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    illiteracy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    illiteracy.

Hypernym for Illiterate:

• n.

  • person
    analphabet, functional illiterate, analphabetic.

Hyponym for Illiterate:

• n.

  • person
    uneducated person, know nothing, ignoramus.