Usually means: Unable to read and write.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word illiterate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. illiterate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. illiterate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illiterate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. illiterate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. illiterate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Illiterate, illiterate: Wordnik
  7. illiterate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. illiterate: Wiktionary
  9. illiterate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. illiterate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. illiterate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Illiterate, illiterate: Dictionary.com
  13. illiterate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. illiterate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Illiterate (film), Illiterate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Illiterate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. illiterate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. illiterate: Rhymezone
  19. illiterate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. illiterate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. illiterate: Free Dictionary
  22. illiterate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. illiterate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. illiterate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. illiterate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiterate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. illiterate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See illiterately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unable to read and write.
adjective:  Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
adjective:  Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
adjective:  Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
noun:  An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
noun:  A person ignorant about a given subject. (The relevant subject is usually named as a noun adjunct.)

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