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Meanings of innumerate in English

Lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods.

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Usage of innumerate in English
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It also pressures politicians who too often mistake innumerate editorials for the public will.
Independent.ie
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It was another of those late-night agreements, which are as legally sophisticated as they are financially innumerate.
The Irish Times
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He can tell from her peevish sigh that his twenty minutes are, in her rough innumerate estimation, up.
The crimson petal and the white
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There are some seven million people worldwide named after him and innumerate institutions, churches and streets also carry his name.
The Irish Times
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When the heady whiff of the 1916 Rising fills his nostrils, he starts babbling the innumerate arithmetic of Irish republicanism.
The Irish Times
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In truth, it proves nothing of the sort: to hold Khan responsible you'd need to be politically motivated, innumerate or both.
The Guardian
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Many people feel being literate is extremely important, but that being innumerate or "mathematically illiterate" is not a problem.
The Irish Times
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Equally innumerate is his observation that while the cold war superpowers never met on the battlefield, they supported proxies in civil wars.
The Guardian
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Madam, How disappointing that the report (Home News, September 6th) of an interesting survey is spoiled by an innumerate main claim.
The Irish Times
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And, to be absolutely clear, that's 4,700 PHAs, not 47,000 as reported by various newspapers and scores of other innumerate websites.
BBC
More collocations
Innumerate through the time