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  • 111illiterate, ignorant — An illiterate person is someone unable to read. The term has been broadened to mean unable to read or write. Somewhat loosely and inexactly, illiterate is now used also to mean not only unlettered but lacking knowledge or culture either in… …

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  • 112Gothic — Synonyms and related words: Neanderthal, Philistine, Victorian, animal, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, bestial, bizarre, bookless, brain born, brutal, brutish, classical, coarse, crude,… …

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  • 113Philistine — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character, arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal minded, case hardened, churl, clown,… …

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  • 114barbaric — Synonyms and related words: Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean, aggressive, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, beastly, bestial, blatant, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody minded, bookless,… …

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  • 115barbarous — Synonyms and related words: Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, backward, barbarian, barbaric, beastly, benighted, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody minded, bookless, brutal …

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  • 116benighted — Synonyms and related words: ableptical, amaurotic, backward, bereft of light, blind, color blind, dark, dim sighted, empty headed, eyeless, hemeralopic, ignorant, illiterate, in darkness, in the dark, know nothing, mind blind, naive, night… …

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  • 117deceived — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bookless, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, hoodwinked, ill educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, nonintellectual, pagan, rude,… …

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  • 118empty headed — Synonyms and related words: awkward, benighted, blank, blankminded, brainless, callow, calm, dizzy, dumb, empty, empty minded, empty pated, empty skulled, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, flighty, fluttery, frivolous, gaga, gauche, giddy,… …

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  • 119heathen — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, Philistine, agnostic, allotheist, allotheistic, animist, animistic, atheist, atheistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bibliolatrous, bookless, chthonian, deceived, disbeliever, disbelieving, doubting, ethnic …

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  • 120hoodwinked — Synonyms and related words: Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bedazzled, blindfold, blindfolded, bookless, darkened, dazed, dazzled, deceived, excecate, functionally illiterate, grammarless, heathen, ill educated, illiterate, led astray, lowbrow,… …

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