illiterate
IPA: ɪɫˈɪtɝʌt
noun
- An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
- A person ignorant about a given subject.
adjective
- Unable to read and write.
- Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
- Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
- Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
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Examples of "illiterate" in Sentences
- Is English not your mother tongue or are you just plain illiterate?
- To be religiously illiterate is to short-change one's self and society.
- Sending computers won't do much at all if people are illiterate never mind *computer illiterate* and starving.
- Being internet illiterate is not meant to label them as bad or stupid people – on the contrary they are just ignorant of how to use technology for their own benefit.
- When I expressed surprise that any one should be content to remain illiterate she laughed good-naturedly and told me that she could make the money to pay her many employees who looked after her business affairs.
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