Sample sentences for ILLITERATE

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Definition

unable to read or write (not literate)

or:

uninformed in a particular field or general subject area

She is functionally illiterate, so she will need help filling out the employment application.

illiterate = unable to read or write

illiterate = uninformed

illiteracy = inability to read and write

illiterate = uninformed

If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations.
George Orwell -- 1984

illiteracy = inability to read and write

There's just no telling what illiterates like that might do.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

illiterates = people who can't read or write

In our valley we received most of our information from the radio because so many had no TV or were illiterate.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

I couldn't ask Gordy because then he'd know I was an illiterate Indian idiot.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

illiterate = unable to read or write (not literate)

or:

uninformed in a particular field or general subject area

We have almost fifty million illiterate adults, two thirds of whom are women, like my own mother.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

My father was astonished and pleased—in our country few doctors bother explaining anything to an illiterate woman.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

We have so many people in our country who are illiterate.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

He felt ashamed but had no choice if he didn't want to end up illiterate.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

We know him affectionately as Badshah Sahib, and though he was completely illiterate, he managed to bring peace to the valley.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

illiterate = unable to read or write

He had studied in a British school in Peshawar, and perhaps because his own father was illiterate he was passionate about schools and built many, as well as hospitals and roads.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

illiterate = unable to read or write

"Two dollars you promised me."
Winston found and handed over two creased and filthy notes, which Parsons entered in a small notebook, in the neat handwriting of the illiterate.
George Orwell -- 1984

illiterate = uninformed or unable to read and write

She was illiterate until she was sixteen; she grew up in a one-room but and slept with goats and chickens.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Many of our voters were illiterate, and were likely to be intimidated by the mere idea of voting.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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