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cacographer

/kəˈkɒɡrəfə(r)/noun

उच्चारण ककॉग्रफ़र

ख़राब लिखावट वाला, अशुद्ध वर्तनी लिखने वाला

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    [C] rare

    a person who has bad handwriting or who spells badly

    ख़राब लिखावट वाला, अशुद्ध वर्तनी लिखने वाला

    • The teacher could not read the cacographer's answer sheet.
    • Radhika teased her brother, a hopeless cacographer, about the spelling mistakes in his notebook.
    • The cacographer in our class often confuses 'their' and 'there'.
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    • As a cacographer, he relies on spell check for every email.
    • The teacher was patient with the young cacographer.

    Opposite calligrapher

◇Word family
cacography noun
≈Synonyms and antonyms

Antonyms

calligrapher

⌂Word origin and word building

From Greek kakos (bad) and graphein (to write).

यह Greek शब्द kakos (बुरा) और graphein (लिखना) से बना है।

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One-word substitution

A person with bad handwriting or spelling is a cacographer, while one with beautiful handwriting is a calligrapher.

ख़राब लिखावट या वर्तनी वाले व्यक्ति को cacographer कहते हैं, जबकि सुंदर लिखावट वाले को calligrapher कहते हैं।