Alliterate vs. Illiterate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Alliterate and Illiterate
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Alliterate
To use alliteration in speech or writing.
Illiterate
Unable to read and write.
Alliterate
To have or contain alliteration.
Illiterate
Having little or no formal education.
Alliterate
To form or arrange with alliteration.
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Illiterate
Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature
An illiterate magazine.
Alliterate
(intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
Illiterate
Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing
A paragraph with several illiterate expressions.
Alliterate
(transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
Illiterate
Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge
Musically illiterate. See Usage Note at literate.
Alliterate
To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
Illiterate
A person who is illiterate.
Alliterate
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
Illiterate
(used with a pl. verb) People who are illiterate, considered as a group.
Alliterate
Use alliteration as a form of poetry
Illiterate
Unable to read and write.
Illiterate
Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
Illiterate
Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
Illiterate
Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
Economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
Illiterate
An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
Illiterate
A person ignorant about a given subject.
The government is run by business illiterates.
Illiterate
Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
Illiterate
A person unable to read
Illiterate
Not able to read or write
Illiterate
Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge;
Ignorant of quantum mechanics
Musically illiterate
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