n
Someone who is able to read but disinclined to do so.
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of analphabet [A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person.]
n
Illiteracy, the inability to read and write.
adj
Opposed to literacy or literature.
adv
(chiefly of abjad script) Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
n
(sometimes offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
adj
(obsolete) Inadequately or superficially educated by reading.
adj
(linguistics, computing) Not well-formed.
n
(uncountable) The inability to read and write.
adj
Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
n
Those who cannot read and write Latin.
n
(archaic) Lack of learning; illiteracy.
adj
Having no material form or physical substance.
adj
Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.
n
A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
n
A person who takes no side in a dispute.
adj
(rare) Not illiterate, but having relative poor literacy.
adj
not professional; amateur
n
(philosophy) The world, regarded as having no rationality or rules.
adj
(sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.
adj
After the decline of literacy.
n
The period before literacy, when a person or culture has not yet learned to read and write.
n
a member of such a culture
n
One who has not yet learned to read fluently.
adj
(of a person) In the early stages of learning to read and write.
n
A person who is quasiliterate.
adj
Partly or imperfectly educated.
n
The state of not being fully literate, or having an imperfect grasp of the written language
adj
Not entirely literate; having a limited grasp of the written language
n
The state or condition of being subliterate.
n
(figuratively) A neutral party in a dispute; one who does not take sides.
adj
(obsolete) Illiterate.
adv
(theology) Without having been derived from something else; originally.
adj
Having inferior literacy skills.
adj
uneducated; illiterate
adj
(of a person) Not intellectual.
adj
not instructed in letters; not well educated; unable to read
n
The state or condition of being unlettered; illiteracy.
adj
Not literate; illiterate.
adj
Not having read; uneducated.
adj
Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
adj
(by extension) Not having any factual substance.
adj
(informal) Not techy; untechnical.
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