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. Don McLean:

   It’s kind of a folk song now, if there's any definition of what a real folk song is, in the world of music back a hundred years ago or so — even hundreds of years ago in rural areas — there were no tape recorders or TV or radio, or even people who were literate enough to write things down.

2. Ajoy Rai:

   Most people are not literate and don't understand what the documents they have even mean, when there are floods or a fire, people lose the documents too.

3. Raymond Chandler:

   Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

4. Manjunath Sadashiva:

   A large number of young people having such undesirable attitudes toward violence against women - including girls themselves - is alarming, these are school-going and college-going students – they’re not uneducated or non-literate people. These are people from cities, not even rural areas... These attitudes that students are displaying are potentially what they are absorbing from society at large, from their families.

5. Michelle Malkin:

   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.