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illiterate1 adjectiveilliterate2 noun illiterateil‧lit‧e‧rate1 /ɪˈlɪtərət/ adjective   - an illiterate composition
- His father was an illiterate farm worker.
- If 70% of the population is illiterate, how do people know who they are voting for?
- According to the 1981 census, 46.5 percent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate.
- An illiterate young man, nineteen years of age, sits beside me in a restaurant and quietly surveys the menu.
- Because a great many of the women are illiterate, music and drama are the best way of making an impact.
- But that did not mean that they were illiterate.
- In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate.
- The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate.
- These are the truly illiterate among us.
- Working families moved out of public housing, and poor, illiterate blacks from the rural South poured in.
not able to read► cannot/can't read to be unable to read at all: · A new report says that 25% of all 7-year-olds cannot read.· Jim couldn't read at all until he was fifteen.· It was not until I had lived with her for a year that I realized she couldn't read. ► illiterate someone who is illiterate cannot read or write - use this about adults or older children: · His father was an illiterate farm worker.· If 70% of the population is illiterate, how do people know who they are voting for? ► slow reader someone, especially a child, who can read, but not very well: · At first Katy was a slow reader, but now she reads all the time.· At the end of the day the teacher does half an hour's extra work with the slow readers. ► illiteracy the fact of being not able to read - use this especially to talk about how many people in a society cannot read: · Illiteracy rates among women in many countries are a serious cause for concern.· a society struggling to overcome poverty and illiteracy· The government has given extra funding to help tackle illiteracy in the inner cities. ADVERB► largely· The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate.· To a world that was flat, static, agricultural and largely illiterate, those books were, literally, a godsend.· If consumers are largely illiterate, then the firm's advertising, packaging and labelling will need to be adapted.· The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate.· The gossip flows in, as at all meeting-places in a largely illiterate environment. NOUN► adults· To the degree that we accept such rituals without denunciation, we are colluding in the further subjugation of illiterate adults.· The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.· Where schools are relatively effective, the children of illiterate adults may forfeit much of what is being offered.· The fatalistic apathy that this creates becomes a part of the induced passivity that I have seen in thousands of illiterate adults.· What, then, of illiterate adults who have been persuaded that they have no expertise in either area of knowledge?· These incremental gains will not be equal to the numbers of illiterate adults emerging from the public schools. ► economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate- Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate, and the government takes orders from the corporations.
nounliteratureliteracy ≠ illiteracyilliterateliteratiadjectiveliteraryliterate ≠ illiterate 1someone who is illiterate has not learned to read or write2badly written, in an uneducated way:  It was an illiterate letter, full of mistakes.3economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate knowing very little about economics, politics etc—illiteracy noun [uncountable]illiterate1 adjectiveilliterate2 noun illiterateilliterate2 noun [countable] - As an illiterate, he does not have the privilege of voting.
- Even at the present level, direct federal allocations represent about $ 1. 65 per year for each illiterate.
- Every adult illiterate... is an indictment of us all..
- Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.
- Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate.
- Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them.
nounliteratureliteracy ≠ illiteracyilliterateliteratiadjectiveliteraryliterate ≠ illiterate someone who has not learned to read or write |