English-Spanish translations for illiterate

• analfabeto
  No somos todos iletrados o analfabetos. We are not all uneducated and illiterate.
  Dos tercios del total de analfabetos en el mundo son mujeres. Two thirds of all illiterates in the world are women.
  En el mundo en desarrollo viven casi mil millones de analfabetos. We have close on a billion illiterate people in the developing world.
• iletrado
  No somos todos iletrados o analfabetos. We are not all uneducated and illiterate.
• ágrafo
• analfabeta
  Hay todavía 900 millones de personas que son analfabetas. Nine hundred million people are still illiterate.
  El 80 % de la comunidad romaní sigue siendo analfabeta. Eighty per cent of the Roma community is still illiterate.
  Una de cada seis personas de la población mundial es analfabeta funcional. One in six of the world's population are functionally illiterate.
• iletrada

Definition of illiterate

• Unable to read and write
• Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing
• An illiterate person, one not able to read and write

Examples

• economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
• The government is run by business illiterates.

Related words

• illiteracy
• illiterately
• illiterateness
• information-illiteracy
• computer illiteracy
• digital illiteracy
• elimination of illiteracy
• information illiteracy
• functional illiteracy