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literate

/ˈlɪtəɹət/noun, adjective3 syllables

Literate means: versed in literature; dealing with literature.

Synonyms for literate5

noun, as in a person who can read and write

literate person

adjective, as in versed in literature; dealing with literature

belletristic, literary, educated, sophisticated

adjective, as in knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields

educated

Opposites of literate

illiterate

What does literate mean?4

adjective

1

versed in literature; dealing with literature

2

knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields“computer literate”

3

able to read and write

noun

1

a person who can read and write

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with literate?1

four syllables

illiterate
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Literate in a sentence

  • Becoming a literate news consumer requires us to be able to identify legitimate journalism.Hybrid
  • It's absurd how few computer science professors are actually computer literate.frpzzd
  • He asked me to read him the Quran because he wasn't very literate.Amastan
  • His mother asked him to read her the Quran because she wasn't very literate.Amastan
  • Yanni was barely literate and spoke little Berber.Amastan
  • An illiterate man was fair game for the literate exploiters who contributed to his domination.Scott
  • We're in the Boreal forest of Canada, and we've uncovered a civilization of literate caterpillars.hecko2
  • I think that Tom is literate.CK

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Forms of literate

as a noun

plural
literates