Illiterate
Illiterate adjective - Lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books.
Usage example: offered menus with pictures, presumably for the many illiterate people who must eat there
Learned is an antonym for illiterate in lacking education topic.
Nearby Words: illiteracy, illiterately
Learned
Learned adjective - Having or displaying advanced knowledge or education.
Usage example: the learned professor can speak knowledgeably on a wide array of subjects
Both words in one sentence
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Bernardo is not actually mute, but illiterate: his balloons never have any words in them, because he never learned how to write!
Source: Creator / Benito Jacovitti - The aptly named Blood Knight Zsadist of J.R.Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series is illiterate for well over a century until he fell in love with the aristocratic vampire Bella, and learned to read in order to be "worthy of courting" her.
Source: Never Learned to Read -
Never Learned to Read: In the backstory at the orphanage, it's revealed that the older-teen Rain is illiterate.
Source: Manga / Immortal Rain
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