illiterate

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more illiteratemost illiterate

Superlative

illitterate

1.
Unable to read and write.
About half of the population in Ethiopia is illiterate.
2.
Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
3.
Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
4.
Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
technologically illiterate, economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

illiteratesillitterate

1.
An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
2.
A person ignorant about a given subject. (The relevant subject is usually named as a noun adjunct.)
Their government is run by business illiterates.
Sometimes a mathematical illiterate is called an innumerate.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

analphabeticignorantuncharactered unlettereduncharactered obsoleteanalphabet

Trái nghĩa

literate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonilliteratee-illiteratecomputer illiterateilliteracyilliteratelyilliteratenessinnumeratenumerateinnumerate adjectivenumerate adjective

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Nguồn gốc từ

r 1425 1475, in Middle English; from Middle English illiterat(e) (uneducated, ignorant of Latin), borrowed from Latin illīterātus, illitterātus (unlearned, ignorant), itself from in- (un-) + līterātus, litterātus (furnished with letters) (see -ate), from lītera, littera (letter, character). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate.