1 (of a person) not knowing how to read or write:
A large percentage of the rural population was illiterate.
OPPLITERATE
2 (of a document or letter) badly written, as if by sb without much education
3 (usually after a noun or adverb) not knowing very much about a particular subject area:
computer illiterate * musically illiterate
illiteracy noun [U]:
The illiteracy rate on the island is still unacceptably high.
noun a person who is illiterate
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is illiterate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, illiterate is tagged as adjective.
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