subliterate

Examples

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• If not, no problem; it just bothers me to have my name associated with subliterate misusage of "their."

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• But I don't know whether he's subliterate or pre-verbal or what.

  Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)

• "Subliterate, inarticulate, unregenerate, pithecanthropic, pencildicked, and dumbfuck," she said later, "is what I would have said if you'd called on me."

  Fiction book (1997)

• But I don't think the twelve-year-olds who are obviously subliterate to begin with, so unable to handle words that they use pictographs to express themselves, are in the place where this book will do anything but leave them with darkness in their minds and a true disappointment with reading altogether.

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• Many subliterate adults struggle to fill out basic job applications.

• The report highlighted the challenges faced by subliterate individuals in today's economy.

• Educational programs are designed to help subliterate children improve their reading and writing skills.

Synonyms

F

functionally illiterate

vssubliterate

2 8.2

Cannot read or write well enough to do everyday tasks

refers to low reading and writing ability without implying daily task failure

S

semiliterate

vssubliterate

1 7.6

Only able to read and write at a very basic level

is at a lower level than expected for normal reading and writing

Antonyms

L

literate

2.7

A person who can read and write

How Literate

well-read

15 4.5

proficient

32 6.0

literate

11 2.5

subliterate

1 8.9

illiterate

29 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology