Illiterate
adjective
Someone who cannot read or write.
In some remote villages, a significant number of adults are still illiterate.
Often appears as...
- illiterate adults
- remain illiterate
adjective
Someone who has little knowledge in a particular area.
While he is a successful businessman, he confesses to being completely computer illiterate.
Often appears as...
- computer illiterate
- financially illiterate
adjective
Someone who cannot read or write.
In some remote villages, a significant number of adults are still illiterate.
Often appears as...
- illiterate adults
- remain illiterate
adjective
Someone who has little knowledge in a particular area.
While he is a successful businessman, he confesses to being completely computer illiterate.
Often appears as...
- computer illiterate
- financially illiterate
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be mindful when using 'illiterate' as it may imply disrespect towards someone's background or education.
Diplomatically address the challenges faced by illiterate individuals in accessing information.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Permanent
'Illiterate' doesn't mean someone can't ever learn to read or write, just that they haven't yet.
The new education program aims to help illiterate adults learn to read.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Issue
Understanding 'illiterate' is key for discussing global education issues.
Charities are working to reduce the number of illiterate children worldwide.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be mindful when using 'illiterate' as it may imply disrespect towards someone's background or education.
Diplomatically address the challenges faced by illiterate individuals in accessing information.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Permanent
'Illiterate' doesn't mean someone can't ever learn to read or write, just that they haven't yet.
The new education program aims to help illiterate adults learn to read.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Issue
Understanding 'illiterate' is key for discussing global education issues.
Charities are working to reduce the number of illiterate children worldwide.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be mindful when using 'illiterate' as it may imply disrespect towards someone's background or education.
Diplomatically address the challenges faced by illiterate individuals in accessing information.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Permanent
'Illiterate' doesn't mean someone can't ever learn to read or write, just that they haven't yet.
The new education program aims to help illiterate adults learn to read.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Issue
Understanding 'illiterate' is key for discussing global education issues.
Charities are working to reduce the number of illiterate children worldwide.
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Leslie T. Chang: The...
One minute. You know, what really impressed me about the workers is how much they're self-motivated, self-driven, resourceful, and the thing that struck me, what they want most is education, to learn, because most of them come from very poor backgrounds. They usually left school when they were in 7th or 8th grade. Their parents are often illiterate,
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History vs. Tamerlane...
leaving nothing but pyramids of skulls in his wake. Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of culture and the arts. During his conquests, he spared artisans and scholars, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many women in the world at the time,
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
raisin one of the grievious species digging in with his trunk trying to pick whatever crosses might be growing underneath he's gonna come around respects there he is beautiful very easy to see that it's a young illiterate bull straight away because you find him on his own you
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Embrace: Low-cost,...
and mothers was that it was the mothers who perform best in our training assessments it was the mothers who were uneducated and illiterate who paid the most attention who retained the most information with a technology designed with this intent the embrace and warmers
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Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
Remember that great scene on the raft, remember what Huck did? You see, here's Huck; he's an illiterate kid; he's had no schooling, but there's something in him. And the official truth, the truth was, the law was, that a black man was a property, was a thing, you see.
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History vs. Vladimir...
full of illiterate peasants to a modern, industrial superpower, with one of the world's best educated populations, unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious,
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What if the poor were...
saved money and bought land, but they also designed and helped construct their own houses. Well, these were illiterate women, so how did they do that? They used floor mats and saris to understand measurements.
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Pirates, nurses and...
that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high surrender or you'll suffer. So of course, all his sensible victims surrendered on sight. Put like that,
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Eric Liu: Why ordinary...
but all around the world, is that far too many people are profoundly illiterate in power — what it is, who has it, how it operates, how it flows, what part of it is visible, what part of it is not,
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
on clay tablets, the Earth's volumes remained inscrutable to humans. We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.
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Leslie T. Chang: The...
One minute. You know, what really impressed me about the workers is how much they're self-motivated, self-driven, resourceful, and the thing that struck me, what they want most is education, to learn, because most of them come from very poor backgrounds. They usually left school when they were in 7th or 8th grade. Their parents are often illiterate,
Video examples
History vs. Tamerlane...
leaving nothing but pyramids of skulls in his wake. Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of culture and the arts. During his conquests, he spared artisans and scholars, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many women in the world at the time,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
raisin one of the grievious species digging in with his trunk trying to pick whatever crosses might be growing underneath he's gonna come around respects there he is beautiful very easy to see that it's a young illiterate bull straight away because you find him on his own you
Video examples
Embrace: Low-cost,...
and mothers was that it was the mothers who perform best in our training assessments it was the mothers who were uneducated and illiterate who paid the most attention who retained the most information with a technology designed with this intent the embrace and warmers
Video examples
Anna Deavere Smith: Four...
Remember that great scene on the raft, remember what Huck did? You see, here's Huck; he's an illiterate kid; he's had no schooling, but there's something in him. And the official truth, the truth was, the law was, that a black man was a property, was a thing, you see.
Video examples
History vs. Vladimir...
full of illiterate peasants to a modern, industrial superpower, with one of the world's best educated populations, unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious,
Video examples
What if the poor were...
saved money and bought land, but they also designed and helped construct their own houses. Well, these were illiterate women, so how did they do that? They used floor mats and saris to understand measurements.
Video examples
Pirates, nurses and...
that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high surrender or you'll suffer. So of course, all his sensible victims surrendered on sight. Put like that,
Video examples
Eric Liu: Why ordinary...
but all around the world, is that far too many people are profoundly illiterate in power — what it is, who has it, how it operates, how it flows, what part of it is visible, what part of it is not,
Video examples
Hunting for dinosaurs...
on clay tablets, the Earth's volumes remained inscrutable to humans. We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.
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Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan Activist
To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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Tim Berners-Lee
English Inventor
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
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John McAfee
American Businessman
I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
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Carl Reiner
American Actor
Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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Werner Herzog
German Director
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
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Jeffrey Archer
English Politician
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
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J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Quote examples
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan Activist
To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
Quote examples
Tim Berners-Lee
English Inventor
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Quote examples
John McAfee
American Businessman
I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
Quote examples
Carl Reiner
American Actor
Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Quote examples
Louis Leakey
British Scientist
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Quote examples
Werner Herzog
German Director
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Archer
English Politician
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
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J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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