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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innumerate
Adjective
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We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Dunk isn’t ignorant of what doing the right thing could cost him.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Obama just went about his job and didn’t send untrained, uneducated wannabe stormtroopers into cities to intimidate people with tremendous shows of force.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Additionally, data released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in September revealed that nearly half of the country’s youth population, aged 18 to 30, is unemployed, uneducated, or lacking training.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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An illiterate laborer and cook, Lee joined the Shaking Quaker sect in 1758.—
Claire Messud,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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This cooking competition show takes a group of kitchen illiterate recruits and puts them through a culinary bootcamp designed to instill them with basic food prep skills.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Even with Dibble effortlessly laying waste to every point and argument made by his benighted co-guest, Joe Rogan remained unconvinced.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
1 Dec. 2025
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With the midterm election still nearly a year off — and the 2028 presidential contest eons away — many of those angry or despondent over the benighted state of our union desperately wanted to do something to push back.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
14 Apr. 2025
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Old fears or old power struggles can become poison if unprocessed, if the lessons remain unlearned.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.—
Jennie Germann Molz,
Scientific American,
21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The unlettered Prince has gained in life what Hamlet achieved only in death: his own story shaped on his own terms, thanks to the intervention of a skillful Horatio.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2023
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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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“Innumerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innumerate. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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