Meaning of ILLITERATE
| Pronunciation: | | i'liturit
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | analphabetic, analphabetic, functionally illiterate, ignorant, illiterate person, nonreader, preliterate, semiliterate, uneducated, unlettered |
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| | Antonyms: | | literate | | |
| | See Also: | | ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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