analphabetic

How To Use analphabetic In A Sentence

• But the later ones, from the viceregal period onwards, are in the vernacular and display a marked deterioration; one must suppose that they were printed for such of the common people as could still read (up to a few years ago, sixty-five per cent of the populace were analphabetic). Old Calabria
• So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: "a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring. Arabian nights. English
• Jesperson's system of phonetic transcription is analphabetic
• We organise mine risk education courses through theatre acts for analphabetic people, puppets for children, radio announcements.
• This well-known Arabist not only assisted me in passing the whole work through the press he also added a valuable treatise on Arabic Prosody (x. 233-258) with indexes of various kinds, and finally he supervised the MSS. of the Supplemental volumes and enriched the last three, which were translated under peculiar difficulties in analphabetic lands, with the results of his wide reading and lexicographical experience. Arabian nights. English
• They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors; they are great at eloquence; and, though without our poetical forms, they have a variety of songs upon all subjects and they improvise panegyrics in honour of chiefs and guests. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: “a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• His enemies were all analphabetic, meaning illiterate, and had on a Tutu.
• The person who said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ must have been an analphabetic nitwit.
• Keeping in mind the goal of minimizing disruption on the page, analphabetic marks frequently require extra attention.