analphabetics

Noun

analphabetic (plural analphabetics)

1. An illiterate person.
   • At press conferences you hear a visiting statesman so eloquent in his own language—and then suddenly he tries a few words in French...an idiot speaking, an analphabetic from some wretched forgotten hamlet learning to read at the age of seventy.—1979, Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter, Penguin, published 1980, page 267

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