| Main Entry: | illiterate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to read well; lacking education |
Synonyms: |
benighted, catachrestic, ignorant, inerudite, solecistic, uneducated, unenlightened, ungrammatical, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored |
Antonyms: |
able, educated, learned, literate, taught |
| Main Entry: | empty-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, scatterbrained |
Synonyms: |
brainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, know-nothing, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous |
Antonyms: |
cognizant, intelligent, sensible, slick, smart |
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid or ridiculous person |
Synonyms: |
ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, boob*, bore, buffoon, clod, clown, cretin*, dimwit, dolt*, dope*, dumb ox, dunce, dunderhead, easy mark, fair game, fathead, goose, halfwit, idiot, ignoramus, illiterate, imbecile, innocent, jerk*, lamebrain, lightweight, loon, moron, nerd*, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, sap*, schlemiel, silly, simpleton, stooge, sucker, turkey, twerp, twit, victim |
Antonyms: |
brain |
| Main Entry: | ignorant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, unknowing |
Synonyms: |
apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green*, illiterate, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, naive, nescient, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless |
| Notes: | stupid refers to lack of ability while ignorant refers to lack of knowledge |
Antonyms: |
aware, competent, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate, talented, wise |
| Main Entry: | lowbrowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncultivated, vulgar |
Synonyms: |
ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, untutored |
| Main Entry: | rude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful, rough |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, abusive, bad-mannered, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutish, cheeky, churlish, coarse, crabbed, crude, curt, discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant, illiterate, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive, loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory, raw, savage, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wild |
Antonyms: |
kind, mannerly, nice, polite, respectful |
| Main Entry: | simple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeble-minded; not intelligent |
Synonyms: |
amateur, asinine, backward, brainless, credulous, dense, dimwitted, dull, dumb, fat, feeble, foolish, green*, gullible, half-witted, idiotic, ignorant, illiterate, imbecile, inane, inexperienced, inexpert, insensate, mindless, moronic, nitwitted, obtuse, senseless, shallow, silly, simple-minded, slow, soft, soft-headed, stupid, thick, uneducated, unintelligent, witless |
Antonyms: |
aware, intelligent, on-the-ball, smart |
| Main Entry: | uneducated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking knowledge |
Synonyms: |
benighted, empty-headed, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, inerudite, know-nothing, lowbrow, uncultivated, uncultured, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, unschooled, untaught, untutored |
Antonyms: |
educated, intelligent, learned, lettered, taught |
| Main Entry: | low-browed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unintellectual |
Synonyms: |
ignorant, illiterate, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly, unschooled, unsophisticated, untutored |
| Main Entry: | unlearned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
Synonyms: |
backward, illiterate, instinctive, natural, uncivilized, uneducated, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed |
Antonyms: |
learned |