illiterate 音标拼音: [ɪl'ɪtɚət]
n . 文盲
a . 目不识丁的,没受教育的
文盲目不识丁的,没受教育的
illiterate adj 1 :
not able to read or write [
ant : {
literate }]
2 :
uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning ;
lacking knowledge of a specific field ; "
she is ignorant of quantum mechanics "; "
he is musically illiterate "
[
synonym : {
ignorant }, {
illiterate }]
3 :
lacking culture ,
especially in language and literature [
ant :
{
literate }]
n 1 :
a person unable to read [
synonym : {
illiterate }, {
illiterate person }, {
nonreader }]
Illiterate \
Il *
lit "
er *
ate \,
a . [
L .
illiteratus :
pref .
il -
not literatus learned .
See {
In -}
not ,
and {
Literal }.]
Unable to read or write ;
ignorant of letters or books ;
unlettered ;
uninstructed ;
uneducated ;
as ,
an illiterate man ,
or people .
Syn :
Ignorant ;
untaught ;
unlearned ;
unlettered ;
unscholary .
See {
Ignorant }. -- {
Il *
lit "
er *
ate *
ly },
adv . --
{
Il *
lit "
er *
ate *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "
illiterate ":
Gothic ,
Philistine ,
barbarous ,
benighted ,
bookless ,
dabbler ,
deceived ,
dilettante ,
dunce ,
empty -
headed ,
fool ,
functionally illiterate ,
grammarless ,
greenhorn ,
greeny ,
heathen ,
hoodwinked ,
ignoramus ,
ignorant ,
ill -
educated ,
illiterati ,
know -
nothing ,
led astray ,
lowbrow ,
middlebrow ,
misinformed ,
misinstructed ,
mistaught ,
no scholar ,
nonintellectual ,
pagan ,
puddinghead ,
rude ,
tenderfoot ,
unbooked ,
unbookish ,
unbooklearned ,
unbriefed ,
uncultivated ,
uncultured ,
unedified ,
uneducated ,
unenlightened ,
unerudite ,
unguided ,
uninstructed ,
unintellectual ,
unintelligentsia ,
unlearned ,
unlettered ,
unliterary ,
unread ,
unrefined ,
unscholarly ,
unschooled ,
unstudious ,
untaught ,
untutored ILLITERATE .
This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters .
2 .
When an ignorant man ,
unable to read ,
signs a deed or agreement ,
or makes his mark instead of a signature ,
and he alleges ,
and can provide that it was falsely read to him ,
he is not bound by it ,
in consequence of the fraud .
And the same effect would result ,
if the deed or agreement were falsely read to a blind man ,
who could have read before he lost his sight ,
or to a foreigner who did not understand the language .
For a plea of "
laymen and unlettered ,"
see Bauer v .
Roth ,
4 Rawle ,
Rep .
85 and pp .
94 ,
95 .
3 .
To induce an illiterate man ,
by false representations and false reading ,
to sign a note for a greater amount than that agreed on ,
is indictable as a cheat .
1 Yerg .
76 .
Vide ,
generally ,
2 Nels .
Ab .
946 ;
2 Co .
3 ;
11 Co .
28 ;
Moor ,
148 .
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