Synonym: ignorant, uncultured, uneducated, unlearned. Antonym: literate. Similar words: alliteration, literate, reiterate, satellite, literally, literary, adulterate, inveterate. Meaning: ['ɪ'lɪtərət /-trət] 
n. a person unable to read. adj. 1. not able to read or write 2. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field 3. lacking culture, especially in language and literature.
n. a person unable to read. adj. 1. not able to read or write 2. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field 3. lacking culture, especially in language and literature. 
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(1) A small but significant number of 11-year-olds are illiterate.
(2) A surprising percentage of the population are illiterate.
(3) People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
(4) You must be illiterate if you've never heard of Marx.
(5) A large percentage of the rural population was illiterate.
(6) An illiterate, later he received some schooling.
(7) It was an illiterate letter(Sentencedict.com), full of mistakes.
(8) A large percentage of the population is illiterate.
(9) Illiterate and undesirable are treated as synonymous.
(10) They couldn't communicate in writing, because William was illiterate.
(11) Over 30% of the adult population were illiterate.
(12) But that did not mean that they were illiterate.
(13) It provides cheap entertainment for illiterate people and perverts.
(14) They are sometimes, especially in underdeveloped countries, illiterate.
(15) His father was an illiterate farm worker.
(16) These are the truly illiterate among us.
(17) The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
(18) Koju was an illiterate villager who had spent his life in the desert ploughing dust with oxen.
(19) He suggested that the petitioners were illiterate and had no notion of what they were signing.
(20) If consumers are largely illiterate, then the firm's advertising, packaging and labelling will need to be adapted.
(21) Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.
(22) Many of the campesinos were illiterate; some spoke only their local dialects.
(23) About half the population in the country is still illiterate.
(24) I'm disturbed that so many of the students appear to be illiterate.
(25) There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.
(26) Is it surprising that young people who are politically illiterate do not bother to vote?
(27) The prisoners who went insane were those who were illiterate and without imagination.
(28) Vice-versa, an educated general public is likely to make better use of health services than an illiterate public.
(29) According to the 1981 census, 46.5 percent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate.
(30) Pan music, the latent harmony in metal, resurrected from debris on the wharves and refineries of Trinidad by illiterate laborers.
More similar words: alliteration, literate, reiterate, satellite, literally, literary, adulterate, inveterate, berate, operate, illustrate, cooperate, tolerate, liberate, desperate, moderate, generate, exaggerate, deliberate, accelerate, desperately, deliberately, cooperate with, deteriorate, extraterrestrial, fill in, fillip, million, illicit, billion.