innumerate
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- innumeracy noun
Etymology
Origin of innumerate
Example Sentences
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Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either.
From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2021
To some degree, I think all of us as just a species, we’re a little bit innumerate as it relates to big numbers.
From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021
Mr. Mishkin says that, to the contrary, he took Mr. Trump’s prospects so seriously that one of his daughters told him that he was beginning to sound like the innumerate Trump booster Bill Mitchell.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2020
I understood how unlikely it was that this would happen again, but I have become emotionally innumerate about pregnancy.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2019
It’s like the innumerate high school principal who complains that most of his students score below his school’s median SAT score.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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