adjective. undefined

adjective. Unable to read and write.

adjective. Having little or no formal education.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature.

adjective. Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing.

adjective. Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge.

noun. A person who is illiterate.

noun. People who are illiterate, considered as a group.

Ignorant of letters or books; having little or no learning; unlettered; uncultivated: as, the illiterate part of the population; an illiterate tribe.

Showing illiteracy or want of culture; rude; barbarous.

Synonyms Unlettered, Unlearned, etc. See ignorant.

noun. An illiterate person; one unable to read or to write.

adjective. Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated.

adjective. Unable to read and write.

adjective. Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.

adjective. Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.

noun. an illiterate person, one not able to read.

noun. a person unable to read

adjective. not able to read or write

adjective. lacking culture, especially in language and literature

adjective. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field

"Sending computers won't do much at all if people are illiterate never mind *computer illiterate* and starving."

literate  

analphabetic  functionally illiterate  preliterate  semiliterate  uneducated  

illiteracy  illiterately  illiterateness  

literate  

barbarous  brainless  corrupt  credulous  destitute  

Gothic  Philistine  barbarous  benighted  bookless