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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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Kudos to former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama for showing class and not responding to this insecure, ignorant symbol of racist hatred.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Walz said children fear aggressive agents; critics called the comparison ignorant and offensive.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
29 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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Helen's illiterate mother, who worked as a maid for an affluent white family, poured all her hopes into her single angel of a daughter.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.—
Cheryl Corley,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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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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
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Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
25 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 1 Mar. 2026.
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