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Noun: aliterate  ey'li-tu-rut
  1. A person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources
    "Despite being able to read, he was an aliterate who preferred visual media";
    - aliterate person

Derived forms: aliterates

Type of: ignoramus [informal], know nothing, uneducated person