illiterate
adjective
unable to read and write.
illiterates
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pluralof illiterate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
Carlson at one point complained about “the illiterates posing as political analysts on your TV,” presumably on rival networks.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
The unintended consequences of do-goodism by cultural illiterates.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
Thus, contract laborers were excluded in 1885, immoral persons and anarchists in 1903, and illiterates in 1917.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
I live here among illiterates, working for a corporation on a salary pared to the bone.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
