American English pronunciation

How to pronounce illiterate

IPA transcription: [,ɪ'lɪtɚət]

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Noun

  • a person unable to read

Adjective

  • not able to read or write

  • lacking culture, especially in language and literature

Adjective

  • 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”