illiterate

/ih-lit-er-it/US // ɪˈlɪt ər ɪt //UK // (ɪˈlɪtərɪt) //

文盲,一字不识,不识字,扫盲

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : unable to read and write: an illiterate group.
- : having or demonstrating very little or no education.
- : showing lack of culture, especially in language and literature.
- : displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field: He is musically illiterate.

n.名词 noun

adj.unable to read well; lacking education

Synonyms

The courts place the burden of proof on the people accused of being foreigners, many of whom are poor and illiterate, unable to navigate a convoluted system or afford legal representation.
In his autobiography, Vartan recalled how his beloved illiterate grandmother used to tell him that character was everything, possessions ephemeral, reputation enduring.
More than 90 percent of the formerly enslaved were illiterate, and education was seen as a source of power and independence, and as a tool for having control over their own lives.
For my technologically illiterate mother, the idea of paying bills online provokes as much anxiety as throwing something away.
Her mother was illiterate, but she secured a tutor for both her sons and her daughters, and Juana could read by the age of 3.
“At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.
An ICRW survey in Afghanistan in 2010 found that 71 percent of parents who married off their daughters were illiterate.
Libya was then the poorest country in the world and nearly illiterate.
The second step taken arose from the necessity of making this speech of the illiterate capable of elevated expression.
But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.

/ih-lit-er-it/US // ɪˈlɪt ər ɪt //UK // (ɪˈlɪtərɪt) //

文盲,一字不识,不识字,扫盲

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : unable to read and write: an illiterate group.
- : having or demonstrating very little or no education.
- : showing lack of culture, especially in language and literature.
- : displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field: He is musically illiterate.

n.名词 noun

adj.unable to read well; lacking education

Synonyms

The courts place the burden of proof on the people accused of being foreigners, many of whom are poor and illiterate, unable to navigate a convoluted system or afford legal representation.
In his autobiography, Vartan recalled how his beloved illiterate grandmother used to tell him that character was everything, possessions ephemeral, reputation enduring.
More than 90 percent of the formerly enslaved were illiterate, and education was seen as a source of power and independence, and as a tool for having control over their own lives.
For my technologically illiterate mother, the idea of paying bills online provokes as much anxiety as throwing something away.
Her mother was illiterate, but she secured a tutor for both her sons and her daughters, and Juana could read by the age of 3.
“At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.
An ICRW survey in Afghanistan in 2010 found that 71 percent of parents who married off their daughters were illiterate.
Libya was then the poorest country in the world and nearly illiterate.
The second step taken arose from the necessity of making this speech of the illiterate capable of elevated expression.
But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.