Synonym: nonliterate. Similar words: literate, comparative literature, obliterate, illiterate, obliterated, semiliterate, literati, literature. Meaning: ['prɪː'lɪtərət /-trət] 
adj. 1. not yet having acquired the ability to read and write 2. used of a society that has not developed writing.
adj. 1. not yet having acquired the ability to read and write 2. used of a society that has not developed writing. 
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1. Certainly psychoanalytic theory helps understanding of some actions of people in pre-literate societies, or of children and neurotics in Western societies.
2. As a result, we will become like preliterate tribesmen of old, except on a much larger scale.
3. It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives.
4. This is a common characteristic of a preliterate society.
5. When millions watch the same programs, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities.
6. When millions watch the same programs, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the condition which obtain in preliterate communities.
7. When ethnologists discovered, described and analyzed adult sexual contact with children in preliterate societies, they learned that their Western concepts did not always apply.
8. When millions watch the same programmes, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities.
More similar words: literate, comparative literature, obliterate, illiterate, obliterated, semiliterate, literati, literature, iterate, alliterative, alliteration, obliteration, reiterate, litterateur, literal, literally, literary, literacy, illiteracy, literalism, iterative, iteration, deliberate, reiterative, reiteration, deliberately, literary genre, preponderate, literary criticism, inveterate.