functional illiterate
Comparefunctional literacy
The major cause of these students' difficulties was functional illiteracy.
There are huge pockets of functional illiteracy in the adult population.
The functional illiteracy rate in our area is 52 percent.
Functional illiteracy is distinguished from pure illiteracy, where someone cannot read or write at all.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
fumblingly
gauche
gauchely
gawkily
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
like a bull in a china shopidiom
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly