numerate
English
Pronunciation
Verb
numerate (third-person singular simple present numerates, present participle numerating, simple past and past participle numerated)
- (transitive) to count
Synonyms
- (count): count, enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count
Translations
Pronunciation
Adjective
numerate (comparative more numerate, superlative most numerate)
- Having the ability to understand numbers and perform arithmetic.
- Antonyms: innumerate, dyscalculic
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8:
- In these days when the age of pulse was giving way to the age of tone. When the epoch of analogue (which was to say also of the richness of language, of analogy) was giving way to the digital era, the final victory of the numerate over the literate.
Related terms
Translations
having the ability to understand numbers and perform arithmetic
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References
- “numerate”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “numerate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Italian
Verb
numerate
- inflection of numerare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
Latin
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