'Illiterate' definitions:
Definition of 'illiterate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not able to read or write [ant: literate]
adjective
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" [syn: ignorant, illiterate]
adjective
Lacking culture, especially in language and literature [ant: literate]
noun
A person unable to read [syn: illiterate, illiterate person, nonreader]
Definition of 'Illiterate'
From: GCIDE
- Illiterate \Il*lit"er*ate\, a. [L. illiteratus: pref. il- not + literatus learned. See In- not, and Literal.] Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
- Syn: Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- {Il*lit"er*ate*ly}, adv. -- {Il*lit"er*ate*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'illiterate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- barbarous,
- benighted,
- bookless,
- dabbler,
- deceived,
- dilettante,
- dunce,
- empty-headed,
- fool,
- functionally illiterate,
- Gothic,
- grammarless,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- heathen,
- hoodwinked,
- ignoramus,
- ignorant,
- ill-educated,
- illiterati,
- know-nothing,
- led astray,
- lowbrow,
- middlebrow,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- no scholar,
- nonintellectual,
- pagan,
- Philistine,
- puddinghead,
- rude,
- tenderfoot,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unenlightened,
- unerudite,
- unguided,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligentsia,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unliterary,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unstudious,
- untaught,
- untutored