Synonym: cultured, educated, learned, scholarly. Similar words: alliteration, reiterate, literally, literary, inveterate, adulterate, satellite, berate. Meaning: ['lɪtərət] n. a person who can read and write. adj. 1. able to read and write 2. versed in literature; dealing with literature 3. knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields.
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31. Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
32. A recent United Nations report says that 90% of the adult population are literate.
33. Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce.
34. An impeccably literate thriller by the author of Manhattan Nocturne.
35. So administration would be within the competence of any literate person.
36. Through it all Giap remained an intellectual, often aloof from his barely literate followers.
37. Yet, like other places, Utah has to turn to low-tech services to soak up its growing numbers of literate job-hunters.
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38. Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
39. Vesey, a literate free black, plotted the only large-scale city revolt during the history of slavery in the United States.
40. Literate societies have a strong tendency to take writing as the norm of language.
41. It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears.
42. Over the last hundred years, people have become healthier, more literate, and better educated.
43. Before phones, people had to be literate in order to communicate with the outside world through letters.
44. Every student should be literate by the time he or she leaves primary school.
45. We sanctify ourselves through literate participation in collective reverence for our past.
46. It could, for literate people, provide a more interesting presentation of fact and argument.
47. It, too, wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored.
48. With better education in the late Victorian period, literate girls could easily be found.
49. It is important that all children become computer literate while they are in school.
50. Now, an increasingly influential and literate middle class was sharing in making it and in the demand for it.
51. A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. Nelson Mandela
52. Raskin wrote a literate manual that became a standard for the young industry.
53. What they can read without any introduction is certainly possible for literate adults to adapt to.
54. The picture of politics drawn here is not one that a literate Victorian would recognise.
55. The evidence from shrines, temples and churches erected to meet the needs of literate societies is even more decisive.
56. Shafir made a detailed study of comprehension levels by the supposedly literate.
57. Many convicted white-collar criminals, being more literate, are more likely to write and sell their stories.
58. Paper costs are high, but loss of literate readers is much higher.
59. Making money and turning out literate graduates are themselves formidable tasks, made none the easier when burdened with idealistic moral baggage.
60. Scientifically Literate? Methinks thee two protest too much.
More similar words: alliteration, reiterate, literally, literary, inveterate, adulterate, satellite, berate, operate, moderate, cooperate, generate, liberate, tolerate, desperate, desperately, deliberate, exaggerate, accelerate, cooperate with, deliberately, deteriorate, extraterrestrial, elite, impolite, writer, litter, operator, jupiter, operation.