1. Home
2. Idioms
3. by rote

by rote

---

---

by rote

[of learning or memorizing] done as habit and without thinking. I simply memorized the speech by rote. I don't know what it means. The student learns everything by rote and doesn't really understand the concepts.

See also: rote

by rote

automatically and without understanding The children had learned number facts by rote and could calculate quickly.

See also: rote