illiterate

1. 1.

   a person unable to read

   Synonymsilliterate personnonreader

   Broaderignoramus

   Narroweranalphabetfunctional illiterate

Other forms of illiterate

plural

illiterates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about illiterate

What does illiterate mean?

illiterate means "not able to read or write". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in illiterate?

illiterate has 4 syllables: il-lit-e-rate. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈlɪtɚət/.

What is another word for illiterate?

Close synonyms include ignorant, illiterate person, nonreader. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of illiterate?

The recorded antonyms are literate, literate.

Is illiterate a common word?

illiterate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with illiterate?

1 word rhymes with illiterate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.