About The Word Illiterate
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Illiterate
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What's The Definition Of Illiterate?
[n] a person unable to read
[adj] ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge; "ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "musically illiterate" [adj] not able to read or write Synonyms | Synonyms for Illiterate: analphabetic | analphabetic | functionally illiterate | ignorant | illiterate person | nonreader | preliterate | semiliterate | uneducated | unlettered Related Terms | Find terms related to Illiterate: barbarous | benighted | bookless | dabbler | deceived | dilettante | dunce | empty-headed | fool | functionally illiterate | Gothic | grammarless | greenhorn | greeny | heathen | hoodwinked | ignoramus | ignorant | ill-educated | illiterati | know-nothing | led astray | lowbrow | middlebrow | misinformed | misinstructed | mistaught | no scholar | nonintellectual | pagan | Philistine | puddinghead | rude | tenderfoot | unbooked | unbookish | unbooklearned | unbriefed | uncultivated | uncultured | unedified | uneducated | unenlightened | unerudite | unguided | uninstructed | unintellectual | unintelligentsia | unlearned | unlettered | unliterary | unread | unrefined | unscholarly | unschooled | unstudious | untaught | untutored See Also | ignoramus | know nothing | uneducated person Illiterate In Webster's Dictionary \Il*lit"er*ate\, a. [L. illiteratus: pref. il- not +
literatus learned. See {In-} not, and {Literal}.]
Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed;
uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
Syn: Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary.
See {Ignorant}. -- {Il*lit"er*ate*ly}, adv. --
{Il*lit"er*ate*ness}, n.
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