Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication.
Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.
Синонимы
Examples for "illiterate "
Examples for "illiterate "
1 Indeed, we are almost illiterate when it comes to matters of faith.
2 The southern Italians, who are the most illiterate , produce the most pauperism.
3 Meanwhile, one-third of all 15-year-olds nationwide are functionally illiterate , the report said.
4 It revealed that 25 per cent of Irish adults are functionally illiterate .
5 In many States, assistance is rendered to the illiterate or the blind.
1 There was so much as yet unlearned , even by the top people.
2 Only among the lowly, the unlearned , and the poor was English heard.
3 Then the unlearned learn, and not the wise, Cleinias, as you imagine.
4 In courts held by unlearned judges, also, English law-books were lightly considered.
5 I learned to eliminate all of that and unlearned all of that.
1 In the unlettered , untravelling past, the factor of tradition was altogether dominant.
2 The humblest of unlettered peasants can teach the highest genius something useful.
3 One epitaph, which the unlettered Muse must have dictated, is worth recording.
4 Brother Lyford had continued to be a rude and unlettered Country Jake.
5 They were, for the most part, plain, unlettered , and of little refinement.
1 The Hebraizer is conscientious but unenlightened ; the Hellenizer is clear-headed but unscrupulous.
2 Why you want to interact with those unenlightened townsfolk, I'll never understand.
3 To the unenlightened reader this poem reveals no traits that are un-English.
4 IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
5 But only an unthinking monster could leave the cinema unmoved and unenlightened .
1 How blind he had been, how nescient of himself!
2 How nescient the poor little thing was!
3 But his French breeding triumphed and he remained, except for that one furtive twinkle, the conscientious valet, nescient and urbane.
Someone who does not strive after knowledge and insight and thus stays unknowing.
1 The defender is ignorant of the strength or direction of the attack.
2 They were the most ignorant of peoples; they became the most wise.
3 Of the natural history of the kangaroo we are still very ignorant .
4 The western world is ignorant of the strength of Jewry in Poland.
5 The shepherds in the Mysore country are very ignorant and very superstitious.
6 They allege that we deny His humanity; in this they are ignorant .
7 The danger of the control of an ignorant electorate has therefore passed.
8 Of the organization of the people under the monarch we are ignorant .
9 He begins in the outermost circle of all, with the ignorant sinners.
10 People in that part of the country are sadly ignorant and superstitious.
11 Her priests and monks were the only teachers in an ignorant age.
12 The are either entirely ignorant of religion or their ideas are erroneous.
13 The people of Rathlin were rude and ignorant , but simple and hospitable.
14 She was ignorant of the struggle taking place in his loyal heart.
15 Nor was Long-Hair ignorant of the danger involved in his daring enterprise.
16 We knew not his nature; then he was ignorant of it himself.
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