| 单词 | semiliterate |
| 释义 | semiliterate (once / 131326 pages) adj WORD FAMILY literate: illiterate, literacy, literately, literates, nonliterate, preliterate, semiliterate+/illiteracy: illiteracies/illiterate: illiteracy, illiterately, illiterates/literacy: literacies USAGE EXAMPLESThis transformed a nation of semiliterate farmers into the world’s most-educated country. New York Times(Sep 08, 2015) “I write reasonably well,” he said, despairing that most residents of Los Angeles were “semiliterate.” The New Yorker(Apr 06, 2015) Its subject was a family of four semiliterate brothers in rural Munnsville, N.Y., one of whom was accused of suffocating another in his sleep. New York Times(Feb 24, 2015) 1adj barely able to read and write an semiliterate scrawl Syn illiterate not able to read or write 2adj able to read but not to write Syn illiterate not able to read or write 3adj literate but poorly informed Syn educated possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge) |
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