literate English

Meaning literate meaning

What does literate mean?

literate

— adjective able to read and write

— adjective versed in literature; dealing with literature

— adjective knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields computer literate

— noun a person who can read and write

Synonyms literate synonyms

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learned

educated

lettered

literate person

learned person

grammatical

erudite

competent

who can read and write

well-written

well-educated

taught

student

sophisticated

scholastic

scholarly

scholar

savant

medieval Schoolman

literary

knowledgeable

instructed

expert

educated person

bookman

Schoolman

Topics literate topics

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Language and thought Think Mind

Intelligent

• What words describe someone who thinks well?
  intelligent brainy bright brilliant capable clever crafty discerning educated ingenious insightful keen knowledgeable learned literate perceptive philosophical profound rational scholarly sharp shrewd sly smart sophisticated sound wily have a lot of sense have a high IQ

Language and thought Communication

Reading and writing

• What words refer to whether or not a person can read and write?
  literate illiterate

Examples literate examples

How do I use literate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

An illiterate man was fair game for the literate exploiters who contributed to his domination.

Tom is literate.

I think Tom is literate.

While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.

I'm literate.

Movie subtitles

Now, you're literate and garrulous, you can talk about this and that, about the stars, about Frenchmen, about the gentry, about the truth.

You're literate, but you're working for me.

Are they literate?

It removes tape from radio logs. It must be a very literate and inquisitive virus.

They're all so literate.

You are painters, literate.

Well, shut my mouth if it isn't our new literate figure from the South.

Dear Sandro, at least they're literate.

He's not computer-literate enough to do that.

That's just what the world needs more literate exterminators.

Literate, complex and neurotic, I would imagine.

Are you that literate?

I'm a tasteless, uncouth, mindless, tone-deaf, randy, blokeish, semi-literate space bum. Oh!

Today's criminal, no matter how lowly, Is sophisticated, high-tech and computer literate- A cunning and complex foe.

And the Pharisees were great deceivers, literate and cunning.

Was it literate?

Remember that to be literate is to be liberated, for nobody can ever fool you again.

You were right. One of the hijackers must be very computer literate.

I have it in like semi-literate form, so it's wastebasket time.

A literate burglar?

You computer literate?

Well, not really a goose and not very literate, but there is one!

Girls don't love the like of you. They love young, long-legged, politically literate ones.

But I don't know whether he's sub-literate or pre-verbal or what but he just stares. Stares, dear.

And you're computer literate?

Right after your father replaced you with a semi-literate pretty boy.

Pretty, rich. Surprisingly literate.

And this country as a whole. should be more theologically literate. But it's not science.

News and current affairs

Argentina needs and deserves such help, and the foundations for economic success-skills (a literate and well-educated population) and institutions (a federal constitutional democracy)-have been in place for a long time.

Any financially literate fund manager knows that risk and return are positively correlated.

The demographic burden of a rapidly growing labor force appears to be greatly increased when that labor force is not very literate, especially when inadequate infrastructure, crime, and official corruption also take their toll.

They recognize that India has the most economically literate leadership in the world.

To this end, an open-minded, culturally literate, and ideas-oriented head of state could play a pivotal role.

Today's fundamentalism is a modern way of being religious, more suitable to a literate, urban population than a peasantry guided by traditional religious scholars.

Literate, well-educated women with many social and economic options in today's rich countries have pulled fertility below the natural replacement rate.

Of the four members, Russia has the smallest and most literate population and a much higher per capita income, but, more importantly, many observers believe that Russia is declining while the other three are rising in power resources.

Thus, evolutionary psychologists infer what makes us who we are from the remains of our Stone Age ancestors (including their DNA), whereas humanists focus on artifacts of a more recent and literate age.

And, when she does marry and has children of her own, they will benefit from two educated, employed parents, which means twice as much literate conversation in the home, twice the contacts, and twice the encouragement to succeed.

India has the most economically literate triumvirate of politicians in the world in charge of its economy.

We need scientifically literate politicians adept at evidence-based critical thinking to translate these findings and recommendations into policy and international agreements.

NEW YORK - Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected societies, and skyrocketing world food prices.

India is a glorious democracy with an economically literate government and pockets of real economic achievement.