Illiteracy
11illiteracy — noun a) The inability to read. Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country. b) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage. Ant: literacy See Also: illiterate …
12illiteracy — [[t]ɪlɪ̱tərəsi[/t]] N UNCOUNT Illiteracy is the state of not knowing how to read or write …
13illiteracy — illiterate ► ADJECTIVE 1) unable to read or write. 2) ignorant in a particular subject or activity; politically illiterate. DERIVATIVES illiteracy noun illiterately adverb …
14illiteracy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1660 1. the quality or state of being illiterate; especially inability to read or write 2. a mistake or crudity (as in speaking) typical of one who is illiterate …
15illiteracy — /i lit euhr euh see/, n., pl. illiteracies for 3. 1. a lack of ability to read and write. 2. the state of being illiterate; lack of any or enough education. 3. a mistake in writing or speaking, felt to be characteristic of an illiterate or… …
16illiteracy — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lack of education, ignorance, stupidity; see ignorance 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: benightedness, ignorance, illiterateness, nescience. See KNOWLEDGE …
17illiteracy — il·lit·er·a·cy || ɪ lɪtÉ™rÉ™sɪ / trÉ™sɪ n. inability to read and write; ignorance, lack of education …
18illiteracy — n. 1. Ignorance, want of learning, want of literary culture. 2. Inability to read and write …
19illiteracy — n 1. ignorance, unenlightenment, be nightedness, nescience, lack of education, illiterateness. 2.(all of reading or writing) inaccuracy, incorrectness, solecism, malapropism, error, mistake; nonstandard or substandard usage …
20illiteracy — il·literacy …
