ILLITERATE

• (noun) a person unable to read

  synonyms : illiterate person , nonreader

• (adj.) lacking culture, especially in language and literature

• (adj.) not able to read or write

• (adj.) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field

  "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics", "he is musically illiterate"

  synonyms : ignorant

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