alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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(adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
(adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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(adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
(adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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(adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
(adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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(adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
(adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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(adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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(adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
(adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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