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.
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(91) We're working on projects like a visual interface that will enable illiterate or semiliterate people to use a PC instantly, with minimal training.
(92) Up to 50% of prisoners on release cannot read or write well enough to hold down a job, and up to 85% of young offenders are functionally illiterate.
(93) A nation four-fifths peasant and two-thirds illiterate was industrialised, urbanised and educated within 30 years.
(94) The illiterate were familiarised in this way with the horror which threatened the sinners and unfaithful, and the paradisiacal ecstasy which awaited the good Christian.
(95) They can read some alphabetic script and know some rules of it. This is called "emergent reading", a big part of "emergent literacy", process from "illiterate" to "literate".
(96) One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.
(97) Mother, absolutely illiterate,(sentencedict.com) washed my low-down and madding heart with her broad love like the boundless sea.
(98) Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am.
(99) He had been to school but he had learnt nothing there, so he was now illiterate.
(100) Elimination of the illiterate person in the farmer is the mainly task of farmer's pastimecultural education.
(101) By Day Seven I realized that this technique of meditation is so simple that any child or even an illiterate person can learn and effectively practise it.
(102) Human language is an altogether inadequate vehicle to express supersensuous perception. Sri Ramakrishna was almost illiterate.
(103) About 13 percent of all 17-year- olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent.
(104) Lack of this, is like a tone deaf person to work as a singer, a bad man squatting stances to as a martial artist, an illiterate person to as calligrapher, the result is self-evident.
(105) EVERYBODY has his own tale of terrible translation to tell — an incomprehensible restaurant menu in Croatia, a comically illiterate warning sign on a French beach.
(106) She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.
(107) Even in the wealthiest countries with universal education, many people are functionally illiterate.
(108) One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer a want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.
(109) Picture cards were mainly used in the illiterate or semiliterate patients and those who did not understand Putonghua, giving a satisfaction rate of 94.25%.
(110) But she was illiterate herself. Why was she so anxious for me to study?
(111) An illiterate could be truly poetic. A commoner may know all about Zen.
(112) "Student Survival" in a book pointed out: "future illiterate person no longer will not be literate human, but will not study human.
(113) I read that beautiful Shakespearean sonnet to her, but it was pearls before swine to such an illiterate person.
(114) A recent USA TODAY article reported that 90 million Americans are functionally illiterate.
(115) He is illiterate, with failing eyesight, and had worked as an oysterman before Katrina and its accompanying oil spills.
(116) Being illiterate, he had to learn the stories by heart.
(117) A man who does not know a computer is like an illiterate person in the past.
(118) Her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate.
(119) "An illiterate person is like a person without eyes or limbs," she says.
(120) Exploited by landlords, they were poor, ignorant, and, like the ltalians, were onefourtn to one - half illiterate.
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