illiterate
文盲
definition
noun
This reminds me of a quote from Italo Calvino (who was most certainly literate): ‘The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but now the illiterates can read.’
a person who is unable to read or write.
adjective
his parents were illiterate
unable to read or write.
translation of 'illiterate'
adjective
蒙,
文盲
example
Indeed, one-million Quebecers are 'illiterate' and can't read this simple phrase (although the rest surely can and will).
Most Sierra Leoneans are 'illiterate' (cannot read and write) and have few job choices.
Couple a scientifically 'illiterate' public with activist groups well-versed in scare tactics and what do you get?
Do they really think horror fans are so 'illiterate' they won't read subtitles?
That they were able to do so handily and with a backward and politically 'illiterate' film star as their standard bearer only underscores the dimensions of the Democratic collapse.
Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, 'illiterate' and ignorant millions.
His mother, apparently 'illiterate' , was unable to sign her name as a witness to his marriage.
A commoner can practice the latter two means of attaining salvation, even if he is 'illiterate' and unable to study the scriptures on his own.
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the 'illiterate' wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of 'illiterate' and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
It preys on the ignorant, the 'illiterate' , the gullible, and the meek.
Back in the 1830s, when he was a boy of 11, he used to read to 'illiterate' London labourers during his lunch hours.
In Uganda, among those aged fifteen years and over, about 50 percent are 'illiterate' (unable to read or write).
Is it any wonder that our K - 12 education system is in such bad shape when such an 'illiterate' , antiquated report has been circulated and used for more than a decade?
Yeah I know there are 'illiterate' peace activists as well.
Later the journalist was told by his interpreter that the ‘warlord’ was wholly 'illiterate' , unable even to sign his own name in writing.
Then he smiled and proffered an information leaflet that he could not read - he was 'illiterate' , like four-fifths of the population.
This man no more than a spoiled child in a man's shoes; who could no more run a country than could an 'illiterate' person read a book.
I was 'illiterate' , unable to interact with people socially.
Men, women, and children attended these compulsory classes, and hundreds of thousands of 'illiterate' Iraqis learned to read.
Indeed, as I have wondered elsewhere, how long will Americans endure the arrogance and ignorance of their own technically 'illiterate' politicians?
Although her house was almost destroyed in the earthquake, this 'illiterate' woman was unable to convince the Government representative, assessing the damage, that the house was beyond repair.
Then he disparaged my writing for being too 'illiterate' for some but too literate for others.
Its members were unskilled workers, mostly uneducated, occasionally 'illiterate' and often unable to read or speak English.
We keep them in power, and they keep us 'illiterate' , ignorant and prolific.
In 1990 the World Bank estimated that half the population was 'illiterate' (could not read or write).
The best part though was that a number of the kids who were 'illiterate' learned how to read and write through my program.
In 1985 Mrs Nini initiated self-empowering schemes for local women, most of whom were 'illiterate' and unable to find formal employment.
You have to ask yourself whether an 'illiterate' country girl, ignorant in city ways, would have such a self-consciously literary mode of expressing herself.
In addition, many South Africans were 'illiterate' , and unable to read news reports of proceedings.
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