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a·lit·er·ate

(ā-lĭt′ər-ĭt)

adj.

Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate.

a·lit′er·a·cy n.

a·lit′er·ate n.

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aliterate

(eɪˈlɪtərɪt)

a person who is able to read but disinclined to do so

adj

of or relating to aliterates

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a•lit•er•ate

(eɪˈlɪt ər ɪt)

n.

1. a person who is able to read but rarely does.

adj.

2. of, being, or characteristic of an aliterate.

[1975–80]

a•lit′er•a•cy, n.

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aliterate - a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources

aliterate person

ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person - an ignorant person

Translations

aliterate

adj to be aliterate → so gut wie nie lesen

n Person, die so gut wie nie liest

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My explications of the course syllabi, especially in my 100 and 200 level composition classes, often work as negative pep talks, when my use of Greek and Latin metalanguage such as lexicology, aliteracy, and rhetoric frightens the truly hardcore aliterates. They decide to drop the classes because I name the frame that, whatever else writing consists of, it involves words and that we will explore the territory of all manners of word behaviors.

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