Associations to the word «Semiliterate»

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Wiktionary

SEMILITERATE, adjective. Not entirely literate; having a limited grasp of the written language
SEMILITERATE, noun. A person who is semiliterate.

Dictionary definition

SEMILITERATE, adjective. Literate but poorly informed.
SEMILITERATE, adjective. Barely able to read and write; "an semiliterate scrawl".
SEMILITERATE, adjective. Able to read but not to write.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin