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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Illiterate \Il*lit"er*ate\, adjective [L. illiteratus: pref. il- not + literatus learned. See {In-} not, and {Literal}.] Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
Syn: Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See {Ignorant}. -- {Il*lit"er*ate*ly}, adverb -- {Il*lit"er*ate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
illiterate
adjective
1: not able to read or write [ant: {literate}]
2: ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge; "ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "musically illiterate" [syn: {ignorant}]
noun: a person unable to read [syn: {illiterate person}, {nonreader}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "illiterate": Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, benighted, bookless, dabbler, deceived, dilettante, dunce, empty-headed, fool, functionally illiterate, grammarless, greenhorn, greeny, heathen, hoodwinked, ignoramus, ignorant, ill-educated, illiterati, know-nothing, led astray, lowbrow, middlebrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, no scholar, nonintellectual, pagan, puddinghead, rude, tenderfoot, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligentsia, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored
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