semiliterate

Speech parts

1. semiliterate - Noun

2. semiliterate - Adjective

3. semiliterate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

literate but poorly informed

barely able to read and write

able to read but not to write

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dark ignorant illiterate unlearned benighted untaught educated unlettered analphabetic unschooled uneducated uninstructed untutored functionally illiterate unintellectual
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Antonyms

learned literate lettered well-read erudite educated
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Related terms

semiliteracy

Examples

The semiliterate on the next bar stool will tell you with absolute, arrogant assurance just how to solve the world's problems; while the scholar who has spent a lifetime studying their causes is not at all sure how to do this. Edwin Thompson Jaynes

an semiliterate scrawl Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

semiliquid semiliquidity semiliteracy semilla de lombriz Semillon semilobar