functional illiterate

1. 1.

   a person with some ability to read and write but not enough for daily practical needs

   Broaderilliterate

Questions about functional illiterate

What does functional illiterate mean?

functional illiterate means "a person with some ability to read and write but not enough for daily practical needs".

Is functional illiterate a common word?

functional illiterate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.