Adjective: subliterate
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more subliterate |
| Superlative | most subliterate |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like subliterate
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *upó
3. Proto-Italic *supo
4. Latin sub
5. Latin sub-der.
6. English sub-
7. English literate
8. English subliterate
9. From sub- + literate.