cacographer
- noun
- /kæˈkɒɡrəfər/
- Offensive
:
cacógrafo
- Most of his essays were poorly written because he was a notorious cacographer.
Examples
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Don't be a cacographer!
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He is a cacographer.
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The teacher could barely read the cacographer's messy handwriting on the test.
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As a known cacographer, he often made spelling mistakes in his emails.
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Her reputation as a cacographer made her nervous about writing in public.
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Her notes were filled with errors; it was clear she was a cacographer.
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Teachers often struggle to read the work of students who are cacographers.
Synonyms
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
Antonyms
How Good
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- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
cacographer = cacography (opaque) = caco + graph + er
The formation from 'cacography' to 'cacographer' is a regular agent-noun suffixation, though the base word itself is rare.
Etymology
Cacographer comes from Greek parts caco- meaning 'bad' and -graph meaning 'to write', the same root you see in autograph and paragraph. So a cacographer is a 'bad writer', which explains why we use it for someone with poor spelling or messy handwriting.