noun
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An illiterate person, one not able to read and write.
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A person ignorant about a given subject.
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The government is run by business illiterates.
adjective
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Unable to read and write.
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Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
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Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
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Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
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economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
Examples of illiterate in a Sentence
Regimental schools impart elementary education to illiterate soldiers.
There is no excuse for people leaving school illiterate.
No, you can't understand what I learned from that illiterate man--that simple fellow.
He was indeed illiterate; but he spoke to illiterate men.
We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.
At one point, most countries had a majority of people who were illiterate.
Of the whole population over 6 years, 50.5% were illiterate.
When it comes to reading the world we have become illiterate.
Early estimates were that 90% of the population were illiterate.
In a scientifically illiterate media there is no room for critical appraisal of evidence.
A quack doctor who was virtually illiterate, Joseph Healey was one of the main leaders of the parliamentary reform movement in Lancashire.
In order to learn new pieces, children who are musically illiterate depend on being shown what to do hearing others perform.
About a fifth of school leavers are functionally innumerate and illiterate, a situation described by the Confederation of British Industry as a âdisgraceâ .
The influence of the Orthodox Church was very great, particularly over the illiterate serfs and peasantry.
The flashbacks are quite well done in filling in the MacLeod story; in the earlier flashbacks, he is basically an illiterate young lout, and he accrues education, culture, and a moral sense as his Immortality continues.
In 1900 3 1.94% of the toal population was illiterate.
The vocational training program is a key project to improve the economically underdeveloped area, where 56% of girls are illiterate.
In 1905 only ten persons in every thousand married were unable to sign their names, thus proving that the number of illiterate adults of Australian birth is very small.
Of this total, 141,602 were males, 137,563 females; 33,173 were literate, 242,114 illiterate; 205,010 were orthodox Christians, 73, 2 34 Moslems, and 921 of other religious persuasions.
Illiterate citizens were to choose one elector for every ten of their number.
Although initially largely illiterate, they brought with them a vigorous art style, characterized by zoomorphic ornament and INTERLACE patterns.
Apples were the most commonly used ornament in the history of the Christmas tree, a tradition linked to the days when the fruit was used to teach the story of Adam and Eve to a largely illiterate population.
She entered the competition as a single mother from North Carolina, who later would admit that she is, for all intent and purposes, illiterate.
Education is almost non-existent, and the vast majority of the population, both Christian and Moslem, are totally illiterate.
Primary instruction is nominally obligatory; nevertheless at the beginning of the 10th century nearly half the population over six years of age was illiterate.
Aymer was illiterate, ignorant of the English language, and wholly secular in his mode of life.
The result of the widespread monastic school system is that almost all men can read and write a little, though the women are altogether illiterate.
He quickly became conversant with the English, French and Italian languages, but all his extant letters written in English appear singularly ill-spelt and illiterate.
The hair-splitting distinction of the Byzantine doctors between veneration due to images (zr poo and the adoration (irpo s,do' vns XarpEvrtK)) due to God alone, was dropped, and the utility of pictures for the illiterate emphasized.
Gaelic traditions were belittled and Gaelic speakers held up as illiterate bumpkins.
The educated clergy were not always less cruel than the illiterate peasants.
If by any chance you should be as illiterate as I, and not know them, it is worth while curing the defect.
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Martin's approach doubtless appeals to many who are struggling to preach the gospel to a biblically illiterate culture.
He is economically illiterate - unfortunately the majority of policymakers are.
If journalists are statistically illiterate, papers aren't recruiting enough from the sciences.
Whereas the levy of 1894 showed 40% of the recruits to be completely illiterate, only 27% were illiterate when the levy was discharged in 1897.
Dissidence of all kinds has made a considerable advance since the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the increase - as might be expected in a wholly illiterate population - being greatest in the more extravagant sects.
Faith's father was illiterate, prompting her to start the Faith Hill Family Literacy Project.
Many arrivals were illiterate and could not spell their name for officials.
This is one of the only known countries to actually deport citizens over the age of 18 who are recognized as "intentionally illiterate."
Bouillon, &c. For officers in the army, there are the Ecole de Guerre or staff college at Brussels with an average attendance of twenty, a riding school at Ypres where a course is obligatory for the cavalry and horse artillery, and for soldiers in the army there are regimental schools and evening classes for illiterate soldiers.
Among the priests were the most learned men of Egypt, but probably many were illiterate.
The abbess Hild and her monks recognized that the illiterate herdsman had received a gift from heaven, and, in order to test his powers, proposed to him that he should try to render into verse a portion of sacred history which they explained to him.
Thus, alike at Bagdad and at Cordova, Arabian philosophy represents the temporary victory of exotic ideas and of subject races over the theological one-sidedness of Islam, and the illiterate simplicity of the early Saracens.
It proved impossibfe to enforce this statute, and the majority of Spaniards are still illiterate, though in decreasing proportion at each census.
The growing disposition of the bourgeois and artisan classes, not in the large towns only, to imitate the intellectuals in desiring to live in closer touch with the rest of Europe as regards social, economic, scientific and political progress, embittered the struggle between the forces of Liberalism and those of Catholicism, powerfully entrenched in the affections of the women and the illiterate masses of the peasantry.
In 1900, 5.9% of the population at least r o years of age was illiterate.
The habit of telling the " illiterate peasant " what to do is still too deeply engrained.
We have left our people functionally illiterate in using the Bible.