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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--aliterate This week's theme: adjectives. aliterate (ay-LIT-uhr-it) noun, adjective One who is capable of reading but not interested in it. [From Latin a- (not or without) + litteratus (learned), from littera (letter).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. Aliterates stand somewhere between literates and illiterates. They can read but don't want to. Whether they can alliterate, we're not sure. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The avowed aliterate has relinquished an activity that is uniquely human. (Apes can watch TV)." Linton Weeks; Essay; The Washington Post; Jul 14, 1996. X-Bonus Endless money forms the sinews of war. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

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