The word "illiterate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who cannot read or write, or someone who lacks general knowledge or understanding. For example, "Mary is an illiterate adult who has never had the opportunity to learn how to read."
Fielding didn't labour for 30 years at the chalk face to render his pupils illiterate and innumerate.
On Thursday, Zimbabwe's state election commission admitted that nearly 305,000 people were turned away from voting and another 207,000 were "assisted voters" –" supposedly illiterate or infirm" – who needed help from polling officials to cast ballots.
According to the piece, papers were often read aloud in rural houses in Ireland to family groups, usually by priests or schoolteachers, thus enabling "the illiterate to keep abreast of current affairs".
Some of them are illiterate, their education is primary school level, and they can't understand these techniques being used.
Education is particularly problematic: tens of millions of Nigerians are illiterate.
"These children live in extreme poverty with illiterate parents.
Like Suan she is uneducated and illiterate, she works long hours in a rickety hut behind the majestic Ta Prohm ruins making the jewellery that Suan's diminutive size and angelic face help her to sell.
He was a bifurcated man, making cute movies for kids, his primary fanbase as a wrestler, such as Tooth Fairy, Game Plan and Race To Witch Mountain (I call these his "Pet Rock" movies), and bad movies for adults, iffy remakes like Walking Tall, and bad sports movies like Gridiron Gang, and illiterate thrillers like Faster.
About 121 million children are estimated to be out of school, while one in four children are illiterate, according to Unesco.
Tsiolkas is working class and gay; his parents are Greek immigrants; his aunts are illiterate and mum doesn't speak much English – though he says that his father had great storytelling abilities, and was steeped in European folklore, a believer in vampires, curses and the evil eye.
But 75% of prisoners are illiterate This issue of ignoring lower-ability learners is not unique to Labour.
