innumerate

/ɪˈnjuːmə.ɹət/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English

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adj

noun

"The worry is that we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just illiterate. A.I. appears to be exacerbating an alarming trend in which our basic education is failing our young citizens."
"Some innumerates simply refuse to accept that this decade, this century, this millennium all began on Jan. 1, 2001."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English numerate English innumerate From in- + numerate.

more innumerate (comparative) most innumerate (superlative) innumerates (plural)

illiterate innumerable innumeracy

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The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˈnjuːmə.ɹət/.

What does innumerate mean?

Lacking numeracy.

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