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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•al•pha•bet•ic (an′al fə bet′ik, an al′-),USA pronunciation adj. - not alphabetic:an analphabetic arrangement of letters.
- unable to read or write;
illiterate:analphabetic peoples. - Phoneticsof or constituting a system of phonetic transcription, as the one devised by Otto Jespersen, that for each sound indicates by separate sets of symbols the articulator, the point of articulation, and the size and shape of the mouth opening.
n. - Linguisticsan illiterate person;
analphabet.
- Greek analphábēt(os) not knowing the alphabet (an- an-1 + alphábēt(os) alphabet + -os adjective, adjectival suffix) + -ic
- 1660–70
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