Crossword clues for analphabetic
analphabetic
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context not comparable English) (of symbols) Not alphabetic. 2 (context comparable English) (of a person) illiterate, unable to read or write.
WordNet
adj. relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic [ant: alphabetic]
not alphabetic; "an analphabetic arrangement of letters"; "Jesperson's system of phonetic transcription is analphabetic" [ant: alphabetic]
having little acquaintance with writing; "special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society" [syn: unlettered]
n. an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet [syn: analphabet]
Usage examples of "analphabetic".
One of the stout Polish cleaners, friendly, mute, and virtually analphabetic in English, is emptying the trash can behind the bench.
Curriculum Committee, Pierce could take on two additional units of Elements of Communication, which was reading and writing for analphabetic freshmen.
Herr Settembrini was pleased to see his concern for the enlightenment of the people, but his pleasure was marred by the fear that what really actuated Herr Naphta was an instinctive tendency to involve both people and world in analphabetic darkness.
Hans Castorp, as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism, must be something which one might personally call the human.