| 单词 | illiterate |
| 释义 | illiterate (once / 1537 pages) adjn You can describe a person unable to read or write as illiterate. Karaoke, which involves singing out the words to songs as they scroll across a big screen, requires the ability to read. If you’re illiterate, you won’t be able to participate. Illiterate, from the Latin illiteratus “unlearned, ignorant,” can describe someone unable to read or write, but it can also imply that a person lacks cultural awareness. However, Walt Whitman saw a unique beauty to illiteracy: “There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” WORD FAMILYilliterate: illiteracy, illiterately, illiterates+/illiteracy: illiteracies/literacy: literacies/literate: illiterate, literacy, literately, literates, nonliterate, preliterate, semiliterate USAGE EXAMPLESFor a start, German-speaking Theresia was 10 years older than her husband, an illiterate Slovak coachman. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) The defendants argued that they were assisting voters who were poor, uneducated and in some cases illiterate, and marked the ballots with the voters’ permission. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) He uses a basic cellphone and is functionally illiterate. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj not able to read or write Syn|Ant uneducated not having a good education analphabetic, unletteredhaving little acquaintance with writing functionally illiteratehaving reading and writing skills insufficient for ordinary practical needs preliteratenot yet having acquired the ability to read and write semiliteratebarely able to read and write semiliterateable to read but not to write literate able to read and write 2adj uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field he is musically illiterate Syn ignorant uneducated not having a good education 3adj lacking culture, especially in language and literature Ant literate versed in literature; dealing with literature educatedpossessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) belletristicwritten and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content literaryknowledgeable about literature sophisticatedhaving or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire 4n a person unable to read Syn|Hypo|Hyper illiterate person, nonreader analphabet, analphabetic an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet functional illiteratea person with some ability to read and write but not enough for daily practical needs ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person an ignorant person |
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