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ALITERATE PERSON

Dictionary entry overview: What does aliterate person mean?

• ALITERATE PERSON (noun)
The noun ALITERATE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources

Familiarity information: ALITERATE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ALITERATE PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

aliterate; aliterate person

Hypernyms ("aliterate person" is a kind of...):

ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person (an ignorant person)

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