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. Aaron Smith:

   Technology permeates modern life and we thought it would be revealing to see how knowledgeable people were about some core concepts and history, policy makers, tech designers, and those orienting their organizations around digital life can profit from knowing just how 'technology literate' people are and where gaps in their knowledge might be. Just because people use these gadgets a lot doesn't necessarily mean they know everything about how they work and where they came from.

2. 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.

3. Isabel Sheinman:

   Our big vision is to build a world where everyone has equal access to knowledge. Where the ability to read is a basic human right, i really see being literate and having access to information as the single most important tool in allowing people to lift themselves out of poverty.

4. 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.

5. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.