analphabetic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An illiterate person.
    — At press conferences you hear a visiting statesman so eloquent in his own language—and then suddenly he tries a few words in French...an idiot speaking, an analphabetic from some wretched forgotten hamlet learning to read at the age of seventy.—
形容词 adj.
  1. (of symbols) Not alphabetic. not-comparable
  2. (of a person) Illiterate, unable to read or write. comparable
    — His system of exchange was that for any book in his bundle you gave him four annas, and any other book. Not quite any book, however, for the book-wallah, though analphabetic, had learned to recognize and refuse a Bible.

词形变化

more analphabetic comparative most analphabetic superlative analphabetics plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der.
English an-
English alphabetic
English analphabetic
From an- + alphabetic.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der.
English an-
English alphabetic
English analphabetic
From an- + alphabetic.
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