Enumerate vs Innumerate - What's the difference?
enumerate | innumerate |
To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
To determine the amount of.
One who lacks numeracy skills.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=October 6, author=Clyde Haberman, title=Regarding Jonah, Dinkins, Bloomberg and the Importance of a Yankees Victory, work=New York Times
, passage=Some innumerates simply refuse to accept that this decade, this century, this millennium all began on Jan. 1, 2001. }}
As a verb enumerate
is to specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.As an adjective innumerate is
lacking numeracy.As a noun innumerate is
one who lacks numeracy skills.enumerate
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