illiterate
/ɪˈlɪtəɹət/ adjective B2- Unable to read and write. · About half of the population in Ethiopia is illiterate.
- Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
- Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
- Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject. · technologically illiterate, economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
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Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms without forming at it any useful acquaintance.
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