semiliterate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]semiliterate (not comparable)
- Not entirely literate; having a limited grasp of the written language.
- 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 75:
- With the necessary prowess of the semiliterate, Heed had a flawless memory, and like most nonreaders, she was highly numerate.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not entirely literate
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Noun
[edit]semiliterate (plural semiliterates)
- A person who is semiliterate.
- 1988 December 11, Susana Darwin, “Keep Editing, Rita Mae”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 10:
- If Rita Mae Brown were an exceptional writer, I might be more willing to give an ear to her pontificating […] But even as a pulp writer, Brown will have to treat lesbians as more than a bunch of anencephalic semi-literates who will sanctify her name forevermore. We have to have the guts to say, "Keep editing, Rita Mae; paper is cheap and we expect better!"