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analphabet

noun
/əˈnælfəbɛt/

Etymology

From Late Latin analphabetus (“unable to read and write; illiterate”), from Ancient Greek ἀναλφάβητος (analphábētos, “illiterate”), from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos, “alphabet”); analysable as an- + alphabet. The English word was probably influenced by cognate words in other languages such as French analphabète (adjective), German Analphabetus, Analphabet (nouns), analphabeten (adjective), Italian analfabeta (adjective, noun), analfabeto (adjective, noun), Portuguese analfabeto (adjective, noun), Spanish analfabeto (adjective, noun). The adjective was derived from the noun.

  1. derived from ἀναλφάβητος
  2. derived from analphabetus

Definitions

  1. A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet

    A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person.

    • In 1861, out of a total population of 21,777,331, there were no less than 16,999,701 "analphabetes," or persons absolutely unable to read.
    • The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.

  2. Ignorant of the letters of the alphabet

    Ignorant of the letters of the alphabet; partly or wholly illiterate.

    • And of the Mohammedan population nearly all the women are analphabet.
    • All these love tales are in verse, transmitted up to this day, through countless generations of oral tradition by an analphabete people with an inborn, unerring sense of art.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for analphabet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA