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Definition of "analphabetic" [analphabetic]

  • Not alphabetical. (adjective)
  • Unable to read; illiterate. (adjective)
  • One who is unable to read; an illiterate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "analphabetic" in a sentence
  • "So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: “a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring.”"
  • "They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors; they are great at eloquence; and, though without our poetical forms, they have a variety of songs upon all subjects and they improvise panegyrics in honour of chiefs and guests."
  • "Not quite ANY book, however, for the book-wallah, though analphabetic, had learned to recognize and refuse a Bible."