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functional illiterate
noun [C] mainly US specializedDefinition
› someone who is able to live and possibly work in society, but who cannot read and writeInexperienced people and lack of experience functional illiteracy
noun [U] › There's a high rate of functional illiteracy here.Aware
(Definition of functional illiterate noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- apprentice noun
- beginner noun
- dilettante noun
- freshman noun
- greenhorn noun
- in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king idiom
- layman noun (NOT TRAINED)
- laywoman noun
- lightweight noun (NOT SERIOUS)
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