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Synonyms for literate
ˈlɪt ər ɪtlit·er·ate
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literatenoun
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illiterateliterateadjective
Able to read and write; having literacy.
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illiterateliterateadjective
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illiterateliterateadjective
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illiterate
Princeton's WordNet
literate, literate personadjective
a person who can read and write
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literate personAntonyms:
illiterate, semiliterate, functionally illiterate, uneducated, preliterate, analphabetic, unletteredliterateadjective
able to read and write
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unlettered, preliterate, uneducated, semiliterate, illiterate, analphabetic, functionally illiterateliterateadjective
versed in literature; dealing with literature
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semiliterate, unlettered, illiterate, preliterate, uneducated, functionally illiterate, analphabeticliterateadjective
knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields
"computer literate"
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semiliterate, functionally illiterate, analphabetic, illiterate, preliterate, uneducated, unlettered
How to use literate in a sentence?
I see a future in Kenya and in the rest of the continent where kids are becoming really tech literate. And then, in turn, becoming global citizens, it’s a ripple effect. Some of them will help us in solving one of so many big challenges we have in the world today.
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.
Ok, they've maybe got a system which works well for young people who've got all the documentation, etcetera, but they seem to have made no allowances whatsoever for elderly people - perhaps from difficult backgrounds - who are not quite as IT-literate.
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.
We have trained her son, who is literate, to keep a log and check the owner's log, we tell them not to borrow so much money for festivals and weddings: they should know what is trapping them. And that when they have paid off what they owe, they have a right to leave.
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- lletrat, alfabetCatalan, Valencian
- gramotnýCzech
- belesen, gebildetGerman
- alfabeto, letrado, alfabetizadoSpanish
- lettré, alphabèteFrench
- litearraScottish Gaelic
- 読み書き, 博識Japanese
- ಸಾಕ್ಷರರುKannada
- خوێندهوارKurdish
- literateNorwegian
- oczytanyPolish
- letrado, alfabetizadoPortuguese
- образованный, начитанный, грамотныйRussian
- писмен, учен, начитан, pismen, načitan, učenSerbo-Croatian
- belästSwedish
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