Adjective illiterate has 2 senses
- illiterate - not able to read or write
Antonyms: literate, belletristic, lettered, literary, well-written
- ignorant, illiterate - ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge; "ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "musically illiterate"
Antonym: educated (indirect, via uneducated)
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Noun illiterate has 1 sense
- illiterate, illiterate person, nonreader - a person unable to read
--1 is a kind of ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person
--1 has particulars: analphabet, analphabetic; functional illiterate
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