Synonyms for literate
ˈlɪt ər ɪtlit·er·ate

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1. literatenoun

   Antonyms:
   illiterate

2. literateadjective

   Able to read and write; having literacy.

   Antonyms:
   illiterate

3. literateadjective

   Antonyms:
   illiterate

4. literateadjective

   Antonyms:
   illiterate

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1. literate, literate personadjective

   a person who can read and write

   Synonyms:
   literate person

   Antonyms:
   illiterate, semiliterate, functionally illiterate, uneducated, preliterate, analphabetic, unlettered

2. literateadjective

   able to read and write

   Antonyms:
   unlettered, preliterate, uneducated, semiliterate, illiterate, analphabetic, functionally illiterate

3. literateadjective

   versed in literature; dealing with literature

   Antonyms:
   semiliterate, unlettered, illiterate, preliterate, uneducated, functionally illiterate, analphabetic

4. literateadjective

   knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields

   "computer literate"

   Antonyms:
   semiliterate, functionally illiterate, analphabetic, illiterate, preliterate, uneducated, unlettered

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1. List of paraphrases for "literate":

   literacy, educated

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1. Salman Aziz:

   Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated mind. Their minds have never got enlightenment with the true education that supposed to make them better person.

2. George III:

   They read the Bible. They read Isaac Watts hymns. They read the Catechism. They were instilling in them, you actually had to be able to read to be able to understand some of these documents along the way. This is a very, very literate society.

3. Michelle Malkin:

   Good riddance to Joy Karega, she was an untenured and unhinged loon whose anti-Semitic diatribes and barely literate social media rantings shamed Oberlin and all of American higher education.

4. Sunil Gulati:

   I don't think there is any doubt that the American public is far more soccer literate whether that is because of the World Cup (in 1994) or the presence of MLS or the presence of international soccer on television and the changes in technology and social media that facilitate all of that, people are far more literate, far more knowledgeable and far more engaged. That part is great.

5. Waqar Ahmed:

   Athletes are really frustrated because... the coaches are not literate and they have been teaching what they were taught 30 years back, without infrastructure we can do a lot, but without the techniques you cannot win.