单词 | analphabetic |
释义 | analphabeticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Characterized by ignorance of or lack of familiarity with the letters of the alphabet; wholly or partially illiterate; (hence) uneducated, ignorant; unintelligent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] unletteredc1390 unliterate1548 illiterate1556 abecedary1589 letterless1605 illiterated1610 illitered1612 clerkless1653 analphabet1654 analphabetical1676 unalphabeted1799 non-reading1848 analphabetic1876 unalphabetic1883 1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 226 They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors. 1920 Psyche & Eros 1 162 A young man, L., 30 years of age..ignorant, almost analphabetic, a drug fiend. 1923 Folk-lore 34 107 In the Setu district, the analphabetic area made over by Russia, the folk-song still lives as an integral part of daily life. 1934 E. Pound in New Eng. Weekly Nov. 127/2 We were, manifestly, drug up analphabetic in economics. 1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lv. 49 Tartar Yuen ruled as protector Cut down taxes, analphabetic. 1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 147 We are also obliged to consider how the word ‘Hunny’ arrived on each of these jars. Surely this is not the manufacturer's spelling! Nor can it be the analphabetic Pooh's. 2007 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 11 Apr. a16 On this premise, personal freedom counts for nothing, because not everyone can exercise it intelligently, and so we are all to be regarded permanently as analphabetic halfwits. 2. Phonetics. Of a system of writing or notation (originally that devised by O. Jespersen (1860-1943)): that uses composite symbols rather than single characters to represent segments; (also of a symbol) that is composite; that consists of sub-elements representing individual articulators. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [adjective] > representing spoken sounds > type of transcription broad1877 narrow1877 Romic1877 analphabetic1889 antalphabetic1933 impressionistic1939 society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > symbolic > phonetic > sounds represented by composite symbols analphabetic1889 1889 O. Jespersen Artic. Speech Sounds i. 8 The next step will be an ultra-alphabetic or analphabetic system of writing, symbolizing not sounds, but elements of sounds. 1889 O. Jespersen (title) The articulation of speech sounds represented by means of analphabetic symbols. 1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. Syntax i. 13 In phonetics my own Antalphabetic (formerly called Analphabetic) system provides analogous means for symbolizing the formation of speech-sounds. 1944 South-Central Bull. 4 6/2 Dr. Pike..presents a comprehensive analphabetic notation for the complete description of any sound produced by the vocal organs. 1967 D. Abercrombie Elem. Gen. Phonetics 112 Analphabetic notations..represent each segment by a composite symbol made up of a number of signs put together. 2004 A. Joubert Power of Performance iii. 121 The disadvantage of analphabetic notation systems is that the implied audience has to learn the system. B. n. A person who is wholly or partially illiterate; (also) an uneducated or ignorant person. Cf. analphabet n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person unlettered1449 illiterate1628 non-reader1689 letterless1760 analphabetic1880 analphabet1881 1880 E. Seguin Rep. on Educ. (rev. ed.) iv. i. 116 In Italy, where the clergy had the entire management of education, seventy-six analphabetics were found to twenty-four who could read. 1897 C. Thomas in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. Pref. p. ii The Second Part of Faust is not for analphabetics of any kind. 1936 C. Connolly Condemned Playground (1945) ii. 114 The studies of these jewelled and inaccessible analphabetics by one who is pre-eminently a serious and intelligent writer may become valuable documents. 1947 I. A. Richards in Ess. & Stud. 32 8 Two-thirds of us on this planet are..analphabetics. 1985 Eng. Hist. Rev. 100 867 A sort of visual textbook, to be used independently by analphabetics. 2004 I. Nordgren Well Spring of Goths 253 A roadless and wooded landscape with a population consisting mainly of pagan analphabetics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1876 |
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