ANALPHABETIC

PRONUNCIATION: (an-al-fuh-BET-ik)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Illiterate. 2. Not alphabetical.
noun: An illiterate person.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek analphabetos (not knowing the alphabet), from an- (not) + alphabetos (alphabet), from alpha + beta. Earliest documented use: 1876.
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ANAL-HABETIC - communicating via flatulence

ANIL-PHABETIC - purple prose (occasionally other colors)

AN-ALPH-ACETIC - a Sacred River of vinegar