Nouns (1)
literate
n. a person who can read and write
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (7)
literate
adj. versed in literature; dealing with literature
enlightened, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read
adj. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
Fuzzynyms (41)
learned, erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
intellectual
adj. appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
knowledgeable
adj. alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
literate, enlightened, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read
adj. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
cognizant, cognisant, cognizant of
adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
experienced
adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
scholarly
adj. characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"
instructed, schooled, taught, tutored
adj. all used only (or chiefly) with qualifiers "well" or "poorly" or "un-"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
enlightened
adj. having knowledge and spiritual insight;
knowing, blase, worldly
adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
knowledgeable
adj. alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
learned, erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
literate
adj. versed in literature; dealing with literature
cognizant, cognisant, cognizant of
adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
experienced
adj. having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
scholarly
adj. characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"
wise, knowing, wise to
adj. evidencing the possession of inside information
Synonyms (8)
educated
adj. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)
sophisticated
adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
instructed, schooled, taught, tutored
adj. all used only (or chiefly) with qualifiers "well" or "poorly" or "un-"
self-educated
adj. educated by your own efforts rather than by formal instruction
semiliterate
adj. literate but poorly informed
Antonyms (3)
illiterate
adj. not able to read or write
uneducated
adj. not having a good education
uneducated
adj. not having a good education
literate
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