Illiterate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLITERATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one with little or no education
• a person who is unable to read or write.
• a person unable to read
ADJECTIVE:
• having little or no education
• unable to read or write
• ignorant in a particular subject or activity
• uncultured or poorly educated
• (of a piece of writing) showing a lack of education; badly written
• Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
• not able to read or write
• uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
• lacking culture, especially in language and literature
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having little or no education; unable to read or write

Words related to ILLITERATE

illiteracy15 illiterately15 illiterates11

Words that contain ILLITERATE

illiterates11 illiterately15 illiterateness14 illiteratenesse15 illiteratenesses16

How to use ILLITERATE in a sentence

• Not more than ten per cent of the people are illiterate, and the women are as carefully educated the men.
• She healed so many people that, though she was quite illiterate, the medical faculty gave her a certificate to the effect that she could cure.
• That many of the Loyalists were illiterate is evident from the testimony of the Rev.
• They realize that they could never control any but an illiterate population.
• An illiterate condition everywhere prevailing, gave opportunity for the development of superstition.
• Statements to the effect that in 1935 some 70 per cent of all men and 95 per cent of all women were illiterate must include the last category in these figures.
• It is not an illiterate corruption but a true dialect with its own grammatical rules.
• No, I am incapable of the bad feeling, in the first place, and, thanks to my education, of illiterate language, in the second.
• Dennis was not absolutely illiterate, but, in good truth, he was by no means far removed from that uncomfortable category.
• He fell and hurt himself at Cannon Street, too, but was comforted by his sister with a leading case about an illiterate man who fell into a reservoir through not reading a notice.
• It was impossible to believe that he was illiterate.
• In the same way, I have known an illiterate Englishman speak of Aix-la-Chapelle as Hexley Chapel.
• Recall to mind also that he is a boy of too remarkable abilities to be condemned to an obscure and illiterate life.
• Consider how the illiterate among the Israelites conceal the reality of these facts and continue the delusion that Christ was an enemy of Moses.
• He was retained to defend a half-grown, illiterate youth under indictment for murder.
• Four and a half millions of Negroes in our Southern States are utterly illiterate.
• The ill-bred and illiterate can lie As fast as you, and faster far than I.
• General Smith was organizing an army to fight the illiterate but brilliant Confederate General Forrest, who was then making a great deal of trouble in southern Tennessee.
• Antonius, on the other hand, was of opinion that his fame would rise to greater magnitude, if he was considered as a man wholly illiterate, and void of education.
• There are illiterate women whose wills are so steady, whose hearts are so generous, and whose spirits seem to be so continuously refreshed that we look up to them with reverence.
• Arkwright was a barber, and almost entirely illiterate when he invented the spinning-jenny.

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