ALITERATE

aliterate, aliterate person

(noun) a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

aliterate (comparative more aliterate, superlative most aliterate)

Disinclined to read though not illiterate; able to read but reluctant or unlikely to do so.

Noun

aliterate (plural aliterates)

Someone who is able to read but disinclined to do so.

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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