literate

Speech parts

1. literate - Noun

2. literate - Adjective

3. literate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered.

One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.

A literary man.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

learned literary trained intellectual cultivated well-read knowledgeable versed bookish informed educated well-informed scholarly well-educated schooled
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Antonyms

illiterate dark blind deaf detached ignorant
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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

reader writer alphabetizer alphabetiser

Phrases with the word

health-literate

Anagrams

laterite teretial

Examples

All literary men are Red Sox fans-to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. Eric Hoffer

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. Alberto Manguel

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. Bill Nye

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. John Kenneth Galbraith

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Alan Moore

Close letter words and terms

literary work literaryism literata literate person literate programming literately