I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
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The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate .
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To a world that was flat, static, agricultural and largely illiterate , those books were, literally, a godsend.
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If consumers are largely illiterate , then the firm's advertising, packaging and labelling will need to be adapted.
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The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate .
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The gossip flows in, as at all meeting-places in a largely illiterate environment.
■ NOUN
adults
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To the degree that we accept such rituals without denunciation, we are colluding in the further subjugation of illiterate adults .
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The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.
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Where schools are relatively effective, the children of illiterate adults may forfeit much of what is being offered.
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The fatalistic apathy that this creates becomes a part of the induced passivity that I have seen in thousands of illiterate adults .
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What, then, of illiterate adults who have been persuaded that they have no expertise in either area of knowledge?
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These incremental gains will not be equal to the numbers of illiterate adults emerging from the public schools.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an illiterate composition
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His father was an illiterate farm worker.
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If 70% of the population is illiterate , how do people know who they are voting for?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to the 1981 census, 46.5 percent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate .
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An illiterate young man, nineteen years of age, sits beside me in a restaurant and quietly surveys the menu.
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Because a great many of the women are illiterate , music and drama are the best way of making an impact.
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But that did not mean that they were illiterate .
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In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate .
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The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate .
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These are the truly illiterate among us.
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Working families moved out of public housing, and poor, illiterate blacks from the rural South poured in.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As an illiterate , he does not have the privilege of voting.
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Even at the present level, direct federal allocations represent about $ 1. 65 per year for each illiterate .
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Every adult illiterate ... is an indictment of us all...
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Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.
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Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate .
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Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them.