able to read

Synonyms

literate

Examples

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

There, I guess King George will be able to read that! John Hancock

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity. Michael Moore

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. John Muir

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does. Jeanette Winterson

I am blind, but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as broil. I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again. Peter Cook

Words in the phrase

able to read

Close letter words and terms

able to perceive sound able to produce disease able to react able to reason clearly able to recognize able to relate to others