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analphabetic

adj

Etymology

From an- + alphabetic.

  1. borrowed from alphabēticus
  2. borrowed from alphabétique
  3. prefixed as analphabetic — “an + alphabetic”

Definitions

  1. (of symbols) Not alphabetic.

  2. (of a person) Illiterate, unable to read or write.

    • His system of exchange was that for any book in his bundle you gave him four annas, and any other book. Not quite any book, however, for the book-wallah, though analphabetic, had learned to recognize and refuse a Bible.

  3. An illiterate person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for analphabetic. 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