Definition of Illiterate

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Definition of Illiterate
	Illiterate Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Related Definitions: An, As, Ignorant, Illiterate, Man, Of, Or, People

Illiterate Quotations

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Bruce Sterling

Illiterate Translations

illiterate in Dutch is ongeletterd, analfabetisch
illiterate in French is inculte
illiterate in German is Analphabet {m}
illiterate in Italian is incolto
illiterate in Norwegian is analfabet
illiterate in Spanish is barbaro, analfabeto

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