INNUMERATE Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

innumerate

adjective

Definition of innumerate

as in ignorant

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Recent Examples of innumerate Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either. — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021 To my innumerate mind, though, the odds of a Biden win are basically fifty-fifty. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020 In those necks of the woods, people are too ignorant to vote in favor of helping their illiterate and innumerate children. — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018 They would be termed innumerate — unskilled at working with numbers. — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 29 June 2018

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Adjective

Also, the incorrect assumption among those who either are ignorant of the real economic realities or just don’t care and just want to pander to their own districts.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
The old worst dressed lists could be cruel, sexist, culturally ignorant, and spectacularly misguided.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of ignorant

Adjective

Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

Those who are illiterate, above the age of 70, and between 16 and 18 years of age may choose whether to exercise their right.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of illiterate

Adjective

Despite the claims of any number of charlatans who prey on the American brand of cuddly benighted ignorance, the universe will not manifest an alternate reality for anyone who simply wishes for it with sufficient longing.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Could Kleist’s conjecture provide a key to their seeming vacancy, their resignation, their helplessness, suggesting that in their benighted condition lies spiritual perfection?

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of benighted

Adjective

Error patterns go untracked, lessons go unlearned and misaligned agents continue to operate unchecked.

— Victoria Chin, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026

Definition of unlearned

Adjective

Scholars hazarded theories as to how an unschooled middle-aged Black woman from the South could brush with genius.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Mata was also concerned about how the data failed to display how INA staff works with the lowest English proficiency students in the district — specifically those who are unschooled, and oftentimes refugees who have just entered the country.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of unschooled

Adjective

Busby Berkeley Wrongly taken as a mere ornamentalist—even worse, sometimes mistaken for a fascist—Busby Berkeley was an erotic sociobiologist, an unlettered philosopher in visual music.

— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
The characters include a temperamental goat, a sweet-natured monk, an unlettered orphan boy and an intelligent young girl whose destiny is to dethrone a king.

— Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021

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