antiliterate

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ literate.

Adjective

antiliterate (comparative more antiliterate, superlative most antiliterate)

1. Opposed to literacy or literature.
   • 1992, James T Jones, A map of Mexico City blues: Jack Kerouac as poet:

     Kerouac's orality, learned growing up in a relatively antiliterate culture, encouraged him to generate sound continually.

Related terms

• antiliteracy