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illiterate
[ih-lit-er-it]
adjective
unable to read and write.
an illiterate group.
having or demonstrating very little or no education.
showing lack of culture, especially in language and literature.
displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field.
He is musically illiterate.
noun
an illiterate person.
illiterate
/ ɪˈɪəɪ /
adjective
unable to read and write
violating accepted standards in reading and writing
an illiterate scrawl
uneducated, ignorant, or uncultured
scientifically illiterate
noun
an illiterate person
Other Word Forms
- illiterately adverb
- illiterateness noun
- semi-illiterate adjective
- semi-illiterately adverb
- semi-illiterateness noun
- ˈٱٱ adverb
- ˈٱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of illiterate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
A high number of pupils at the secondary school are "functionally illiterate", meaning they have a reading age well below average when they start Year 7.
In the novel, Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the Democratic presidential nomination to Buzz Windrip, who is described as “vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily discredited,” but wins the election in a landslide.
Only the math illiterate would continue to present this as a mandate.
You would have to be culturally illiterate to be unfamiliar with Michael Jordan.
And, it added, the savings Texas sought were “wholly insubstantial in light of the costs involved to these children, the State, and the Nation” of creating “a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries.”
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