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analphabetic, a. and n.|ænˌælfəˈbɛtɪk|
[f. Gr. ἀναλϕάβητ-ος (see prec.) + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Not knowing the letters; totally illiterate. rare.
1876R. Burton Gorilla Land II. 226 They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors. 1940E. Pound Cantos lv. 49 Tartar Yuen ruled as protector Cut down taxes, analphabetic.
2. Phonetics. Of or pertaining to a system of phonetic transcription whereby sounds are represented not by single letters or single signs, but by composite symbols made up of a number of individual signs each representing a feature of the sound.
1889Jespersen Articulations of Speech Sounds Repr. Analphabetic Symbols i. 8 The next step will be an ultra⁓alphabetic or analphabetic system of writing, symbolizing not sounds, but elements of sounds. 1937― Analytic Syntax i. 13 In phonetics my own Antalphabetic (formerly called Analphabetic) system provides analogous means for symbolizing the formation of speech-sounds. 1967D. Abercrombie Elem. Gen. Phonetics 112 Analphabetic notations..represent each segment by a composite symbol made up of a number of signs put together.
B. n. = analphabet n. rare.
1947I. A. Richards in Ess. & Stud. XXXII. 8 Two-thirds of us on this planet are..analphabetics. |