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Illiterate vs Currish - What's the difference?

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Illiterate is a related term of currish.


As adjectives the difference between illiterate and currish

is that illiterate is unable to read and write while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.

As a noun illiterate

is an illiterate person, one not able to read.

illiterate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to read and write.
  • Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
  • Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.

    • Synonyms

    * ignorant * unlettered

    Antonyms

    * literate

    Derived terms

    * illiteracy * illiterately * illiterateness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an illiterate person, one not able to read.

    • References

    * (EtymOnLine)

    currish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
    • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

    • Synonyms

    * doggish