Illiterate

Pronunciation: \(ˌ)i(l)-ˈli-t(ə-)rət Function: Adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin illiteratus, from in- + litteratus Date: 15th century 1: having little or no education ; especially : unable to read or write 2 a: showing or marked by a lack of 3: showing or marked by a lack of acquaintance with the synonyms see ignorant 1. From the letter A through to the letter Z, the authors of 2. When our country routinely ranks 24th (or worse) amongst the top 25 industrialized nations of the world in academic ability, why do we glorify that which is so grossly illiterate and ignorant. Do we really want to become a nation so It starts in the gutter, raise it 3. As citizens of a free (kind of) nation we have the absolute right to be ignorant and illiterate. But why would we want to? I don't get it.

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Recent Examples on the Web Assuming data illiteracy is the reason companies fail to realize value from data creates a toxic divide between data producers and consumers. — Malcolm Hawker, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023 Financial illiteracy will keep you broke or impede your ability to grow your wealth. — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 31 May 2023 Women had virtually no rights under the Taliban's oppressive rule, forced to quit their jobs and stay at home, losing access to education and health care and enduring high rates of both illiteracy and maternal mortality. — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2021 Like other big districts in the state, a large portion of Hartford students and their families are dealing with longstanding and pandemic-related strains, like unemployment and housing insecurity, language barriers and illiteracy and trauma and loss. — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 14 Aug. 2020 Government cannot eliminate poverty or provide a bountiful economy or reduce inflation or save our cities or cure illiteracy or provide energy. — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023 In her second TikTok video, shared in September following her return to Broadway, Michele once again addressed the illiteracy conspiracy. — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023 Besides, illiteracy also reduces South Africans’ income-earning capacity and increases the country’s social costs, according to Kay. — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2023 With 6,675 more votes, the January 6 committee would sti...

(Top photo: Someone who is not illiterate, reading a book to a child. Photo:dassel, I was 17 when I finished all 291 pages of Belle De Jour: Secret Diary of a Call Girlon holiday in Benidorm with my girlfriends. One might guffaw that Belle and her sexy, clumsy mishaps do not qualify as a real book; but even a work deemed "trash" had proved a 14-day struggle. Until then, I had never read a full book in my entire life. Growing up Lancaster, on the north-west coast, my parents were incredibly busy working. They had four children, two dogs, two cats and a snake to support. We didn't have a bookshelf in our house, nor did anyone else we knew. As a kid, sitting down to read would see you named and shamed – reading books was for nerds. I was far from illiterate, but the importance of actually reading was never prioritised in my world. At our school, the library had been converted into a behavioural isolation unit. We weren't really pushed to become the book critics of tomorrow. For me, reading is now an important part of my life. But for many people, illiteracy follows them into old age. Norman Annal, now aged 69, had never really read a book until he retired. "I had my appendix out just before I was supposed to take my 11-plus [exam], and I had to stay home after that for eight weeks," he explained over the phone. "It was a crucial time, and I just slipped through the net: dropping into classes that were ranked lower and lower, until I was in the bottom set with other kids who c...

il•lit•er•ate (i lit ′ər it), USA pronunciation adj. • unable to read and write: an illiterate group. • having or demonstrating very little or no education. • showing lack of culture, esp. in language and literature. • displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field: He is musically illiterate. n. • an illiterate person.

Report Highlights • Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2023. • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2023. • 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level. • Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year. • 34% of adults who lack proficiency in literacy were born outside the US. • Massachusetts was the state with the highest rate of child literacy. • New Mexico was the state with the lowest child literacy rate. • The state with the highest percentage of adults who were considered literate was New Hampshire. • The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California. • On average, nationwide, 66% of 4th grade children in the U.S. could not read proficiently in 2013. Child Literacy Statistics According to the 2018 Digest of Education Statistics, reading scores for most children in 4th and 8th grade were measurably higher in 2017 than they were in 1992, though not measurably higher than they were in 2015. Additionally, the performance gap between certain ethnic groups, such as between White and Black students and between White and Hispanic groups, decreased significantly between 1992 and 2017, though not very much between 2015 and 2017. • On average, in 2017, female 8th graders scored 10 points higher than male 8th graders on the reading portion of the Average National Assessment of Educational Progress. • Fourth grade students, overall, improved 5 points between 1992 and 2017, while 8th grade students, overall, improved...