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analphabetic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of analphabetic

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books

this analphabetic society left no written records so archaeologists must piece together their culture from a variety of nonverbal artifacts

Synonyms of analphabetic

benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored

Words Related to analphabetic

functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable

artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured

callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve)

unsophisticated

raw, unskilled, untrained

brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless

foolish, senseless, silly

Near Antonyms of analphabetic

brilliant, intelligent, smart

experienced, expert, trained

erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly

cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual

acquainted, aware, familiar

Antonyms of analphabetic

educated, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, schooled, well-informed, well-read

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