antiliterate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ literate

Adjective[edit]

antiliterate (comparative more antiliterate, superlative most antiliterate)

  1. Opposed to literacy or literature.
    • 1992, James T Jones, A map of Mexico City blues: Jack Kerouac as poet:
      Kerouac's orality, learned growing up in a relatively antiliterate culture, encouraged him to generate sound continually.

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