illiterate

Adjective

• lacking culture, especially in language and literature

• uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
  • she is ignorant of quantum mechanics
    
  • he is musically illiterate
    

• not able to read or write

Noun

• a person unable to read

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ignorant , illiterate person , nonreader