All 10 Uses
illiterate
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The Water is Wide
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- A church had donated the books in order to rid the island of illiteracy.†
p. 49.3
- They were geographically illiterate.†
p. 57.1
- Complete illiteracy was an animal I had never encountered before.†
p. 61.1
- When I first envisioned myself on the island, a noble creature enshrined among the illiterate masses working in the primitive conditions that would have warmed the cockles of Henry Thoreau's heart, I did not consider my compulsive need for friends and good conversation.†
p. 83.9
- I was impatient because I had failed to turn illiterates into lovers of the great classics in the span of a single month.†
p. 92.9 *illiterates = people who can't read or write
- The kid I had thought nearly illiterate had memorized the words of a fairly complicated song and developed a diction and sense of timing that was almost perfect.†
p. 113.9
- Richard, who I knew damn well was illiterate, who could not string the twenty-six letters of the alphabet together, who could not add two and two, and who could not write his name, came striding manfully to the microphone.†
p. 114.1
- In her own eyes Mrs. Brown felt as though she was instilling values into the children that their likker-swilling, devil-dancing, illiterate parents.†
p. 155.4
- The five illiterates who were served to me like hors d'oeuvres at the beginning of the year would still qualify for membership in that august classification.†
p. 156.9illiterates = people who can't read or write
- It would be convenient to report that Judge Street was a gum-chewing illiterate ex-Klansman elevated to the judgeship by decadent politicians who wished to preserve the status quo.†
p. 286.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(illiterate) unable to read or write (not literate)
or:
uninformed in a particular field or general subject areaNote that "functional illiteracy" means that although one may be able to read or write a little, their ability is inadequate for normal requirements in their society. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)