nonilliterate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not illiterate, but having relative poor literacy.
Example Sentences
- "Most nonilliterate cadres at the battalion level and above have only a rough idea of Chinese characters, without the ability to read theoretical books..."
- "Power's point is not to be dismissed entirely; she undoubtedly speaks for many of the nonpoor and nonilliterate in the society."
- "Thus, to be literate, in Arabic, is to be nonilliterate, which implies a lower level of literacy than "literacy" in the English language."
Etymology
From non- + illiterate.