Usually means: Lacking ability to read, write.
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  1. nonliterate: Merriam-Webster
  2. nonliterate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonliterate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonliterate: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. nonliterate: Wiktionary
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  9. nonliterate: Dictionary.com
  10. nonliterate: Rhymezone
  11. nonliterate: FreeDictionary.org
  12. nonliterate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. nonliterate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nonliterate)

▸ adjective:  Not literate; illiterate
▸ noun:  A nonliterate person.

Similar:
preliterate, noncivilized, unliterate, nonilliterate, ungrammared, semiliterate, illiterate, unlettered, unreading, nonreading, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, literate-minded

Types:
illiterate, analphabetic, unlettered, more...

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Similar:
preliterate, noncivilized, unliterate, nonilliterate, ungrammared, semiliterate, illiterate, unlettered, unreading, nonreading, more...

Opposite:
literate, educated, literate-minded

Types:
illiterate, analphabetic, unlettered, more...



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