different between alliterate vs aliterate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from alliteration.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?.t?.?e?t/

Verb

alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
2. (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
   • 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated

     It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.

Synonyms

• (exhibit alliteration): alliterize

Translations

English

Etymology

a- +? literate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??l?t???t/

Adjective

aliterate (comparative more aliterate, superlative most aliterate)

1. Disinclined to read though not illiterate; able to read but reluctant or unlikely to do so.

Noun

aliterate (plural aliterates)

1. Someone who is able to read but disinclined to do so.

   Mark Twain famously said, "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't read"; more succinctly: the aliterate has little advantage over the illiterate.

Anagrams

• retaliate