semiliterate

Adjective

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Adjective (3)

  1. literate but poorly informedOpposite uneducatedSimilar educated
  2. barely able to read and write“an semiliterate scrawl”Opposite literateSimilar illiterate
  3. able to read but not to writeOpposite literateSimilar illiterate
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