Illiterate (Adjective)
Meaning 2
Lacking culture, especially in language and literature.
Classification
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Examples
- The tourist's behavior in the museum was atrocious, demonstrating a remarkably illiterate approach to art appreciation.
- Despite being well-traveled, she remained woefully illiterate in the world of classical music, unable to distinguish a Mozart sonata from a Chopin nocturne.
- His boorish remarks at the dinner party exposed him as a culturally illiterate guest, completely unaware of the nuances of polite conversation.
- The fact that she had never read a single Dickens novel was a sad reflection of her illiterate upbringing, devoid of literary stimulation.
- In a country where literature was once a revered institution, the increasing illiterate population was a worrying trend for educators and intellectuals.
Antonyms
Meaning 3
Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate".
Classification
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