Associations to the word «Illiterate»
Noun
- Ignorant
- Literacy
- Peasant
- Read
- Immigrant
- Percentage
- Beta
- Cent
- Proportion
- Education
- Majority
- Peasantry
- Population
- Poverty
- Slave
- Script
- Techno
- Class
- Person
- Learning
- Skill
- Scribe
- Vote
- Woman
- Schooling
- Disgrace
- Laborer
- Masse
- Voter
- Adult
- Negroes
- Commoner
- Clergy
- Freedman
- Malnutrition
- Labourer
- Deficiency
- Villager
- Ignorance
- Graduate
- Ballot
- Schoolmaster
- Radical
- Hung
- Caste
- Farmer
- Disappointment
- Clause
- Nomad
- Forgery
- Epic
- Barbarian
- Superstition
- Guatemala
- Countryside
Adjective
Wiktionary
ILLITERATE, adjective. Unable to read and write.
ILLITERATE, adjective. Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
ILLITERATE, adjective. Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
ILLITERATE, noun. An illiterate person, one not able to read.
Dictionary definition
ILLITERATE, noun. A person unable to read.
ILLITERATE, adjective. Not able to read or write.
ILLITERATE, adjective. Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate".
ILLITERATE, adjective. Lacking culture, especially in language and literature.
Wise words
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