Type and usage of illiterate from BoostVocab

illiterate

/ɪ'lɪtərɪt/

noun
a person unable to read
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Similar:

illiterate person nonreader

type of:
uneducated person ignoramus know nothing
adjective
uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
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"he is musically illiterate"

Similar:

ignorant uneducated
adjective
not able to read or write
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Similar:

unlettered analphabetic functionally illiterate preliterate semiliterate

Opposite:

literate
lacking culture, especially in language and literature
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Opposite:

literate

Examples of illiterate

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