Usually means: Unable to read or write.
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  1. illiterately: Merriam-Webster
  2. illiterately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illiterately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. illiterately: Vocabulary.com
  5. illiterately: Wordnik
  6. illiterately: Wiktionary
  7. illiterately: Dictionary.com
  8. illiterately: FreeDictionary.org
  9. illiterately: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. illiterately: Legal dictionary

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  1. illiterately: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In an illiterate manner.

Similar:
illiterally, subliterately, uneducatedly, unliterally, ignorantly, literately, inarticulately, unlearnedly, imbecilely, uninstructedly, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, well-read

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Similar:
illiterally, subliterately, uneducatedly, unliterally, ignorantly, literately, inarticulately, unlearnedly, imbecilely, uninstructedly, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, well-read



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