ADJECTIVE
- having reading and writing skills insufficient for ordinary practical needs
How To Use functionally illiterate In A Sentence
- People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
- People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
- People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
- But of course peaceful, clockwork, wealthy Holland, with its canals and bicycle paths, is a long way from Congo, where the national government barely functions, people speak several hundred languages, and a majority of the population is functionally illiterate and has no electricity, much less a radio or TV. The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
- During the 1980s, he discovered that many of the young workers in his manufacturing firms were functionally illiterate and innumerate.
- People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
- People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
- His human resources officer told him that some of his employees were functionally illiterate, despite having high school diplomas.
