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catachrestic

ADJECTIVE
illiterate
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ignorant uneducated
WEAK
benighted inerudite solecistic unenlightened ungrammatical uninstructed unlearned unlettered unread unschooled untaught untutored
Antonyms
STRONGEST
educated intelligent
WEAK
able learned literate taught

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Catachresis, incorrect use of a word: My catachrestic family!

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

OED notices this catachrestic form of "beatified" 32: All-be-devill'd Paper.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore