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

Let’s hope that George Santayana’s warning to those ignorant of history about the past repeating itself makes an exception for our present Defense Department.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
And then there are amateur collectors like me, who might not know ironstone from porcelain, but whose last day on earth could be spent touching old objects in ignorant bliss.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2026

Definition of ignorant

Adjective

The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.

— Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 24 June 2026
The hillbilly is portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, and unsophisticated; they are often depicted as being unkempt in appearance, perhaps noticeably dirty or walking around barefoot.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

While about 90% of the Black population in Southern states were illiterate in 1865, this percentage dropped to 70% by 1880.

— Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Eventually, a Pakistani Christian group working with families was able to find housing and jobs for parents, and located a teacher for the children who were largely illiterate.

— Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2026

Definition of illiterate

Adjective

But this time there would be no panel from the National Endowment of the Arts sifting through the applications, no oversight from cultural officials and benighted curators—the usual process.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
Repeal the benighted Jones Act, which raises energy and shipping costs.

— Editorial, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 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

When Obama met Trump for a ritual pre-Inauguration visit to the Oval Office, he was struck by how unschooled and incurious the President-elect was.

— Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 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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