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illiterate

An illiterate person is someone who cannot read nor write.

illiterate

When someone is illiterate, it means that the person can't read nor write.

illiterate

not able to read or write (= ignorant) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field she is ignorant of quantum mechanics he is musically illiterate lacking culture, especially in language and literature a person unable to read

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Simple sentences

A billion adults are illiterate.
Tom is a computer illiterate.
The illiterate man was eager to increase his vocabulary.
An illiterate man was fair game for the literate exploiters who contributed to his domination.
There are still people who are illiterate.
We're illiterate.
You're illiterate.
Tom is illiterate.
I'm illiterate.
The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
Most of the peasants living in this godforsaken village are illiterate.
Images are the books of the illiterate.
I wonder if Tom is illiterate.
Tom's illiterate.
I'm not illiterate.
He is illiterate.
Tom isn't illiterate.
Tom's grandfather was illiterate.
Tom and Mary are illiterate.

Movie subtitles

At my age, corrected by an illiterate.
Just think, I'm illiterate, don't know any letters, just the numbers. But I got a big business. Forty-three men working for me.
Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries.
I said Monty was illiterate.
An illiterate, uncivilized murderer and treaty-breaker?
They're illiterate.
The gentleman was quite illiterate, sir, and moreover, he was pressed for time.
We still have illiterate people in the country.
You're not the illiterate country bumpkin you would have people believe.
So let's leave the lamentations to the illiterate.
In that same century. in the conquered Greek province of Thrace. an illiterate slave woman added to her master's wealth. by giving birth to a son whom she named Spartacus.
I'm not illiterate.
The fellow himself is a practically illiterate.
The most illiterate masses and the most ignorant bourgeoisie in Europe. And what do you think of death?
What do you mean illiterate?
In 10 minutes I have given the Squire the impression he spends his whole time fostering genius in the illiterate.
How does an illiterate like you become a reporter?
Your word to a breechclouted savage? An illiterate, uncivilized murderer and treaty-breaker?
The illiterate are directing town affairs.
Do you really believe, Podtyolkov, that the Don will follow you, an illiterate Cossack?
The most illiterate masses and the most ignorant bourgeoisie in Europe.
Well, we couldn't understand your illiterate Morse code.
Born January 15, 1930, in Miliana. Illiterate.
Don't ask me, I'm one of the illiterate.
They're illiterate. - But listen.
A delegate from the women's section, making a list of the illiterate.
Did you ever study, or you're totally illiterate?
Agramonte: 18,000 souls, 4,300 of them illiterate.
But you're all illiterate.
I'm Verace, a lawyer, and you're illiterate clowns!
Come on, Filume'! You're illiterate!
What if the three they arrested. were illiterate?
Because they are illiterate.
There are three illiterate men behind bars, and my reconstruction proves. proves it was others.
An illiterate!

News and current affairs

At the same time, India remains very much an underdeveloped country, with hundreds of millions of illiterate, destitute citizens.
Some 57 million children still do not go to school, 500 million girls will never finish the secondary education to which they are entitled, and 750 million adults remain illiterate.
Economic growth has been slow, approximately half of women are illiterate, and the region is not well integrated into the world economy.
Policymakers who want products and providers of high-skilled services to move freely but people who provide less-skilled services to stay put are not just hypocrites; they are also economically illiterate.
Even in India, where more than half of girls and women are illiterate, more women hold senior management positions than in countries like Germany and the Netherlands.
So forget about the economically illiterate Bush administration daring to do either.
Her boss, Nicolas Sarkozy, is vehemently opposed, but Sarkozy (who cannot speak English and is computer illiterate) can hardly be described as a twenty-first-century role model.
Because so many voters are illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who cannot read the name of their candidate can vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.
Indeed, any Indian able to read this article should consider himself lucky, because India's politicians have succeeded in keeping a majority of the country's population thoroughly illiterate (as well as poor and unhealthy).
Instead of preparing a pool of educated workers for the future, the government's policies have given rise to an illiterate and innumerate population.
My parents were illiterate, and none of my sisters attended school beyond the primary level.
Otherwise, Pakistan's terrorists, who feed off of political instability, will continue to gain, while the country's poor and illiterate majority will continue to lose ground.
Its members are uneducated rural men, some of whom are illiterate.

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