Synonyms of literate

literate

adjective

ˈli-tə-rət 

as in educated

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education

the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows

Synonyms & Similar Words

• educated
• scholarly
• civilized
• cultured
• skilled
• knowledgeable
• erudite
• well-read
• learned
• informed
• lettered
• instructed
• academic
• cultivated
• intellectual
• cerebral
• polished
• highbrow
• schooled
• enlightened
• didactic
• well-bred
• bookish
• trained
• professorial
• pedantic
• versed
• didactical
• briefed
• self-educated
• overeducated
• refined
• highbrowed
• self-taught
• homeschooled
• inkhorn
• polymath
• self-instructed
• polyhistoric

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• illiterate
• ignorant
• uneducated
• unlettered
• unlearned
• dark
• benighted
• uncivilized
• uncultured
• uncultivated
• unscholarly
• semiliterate
• unintellectual
• lowbrow
• uninformed
• unpolished
• unrefined
• untutored
• unschooled
• unknowledgeable
• untaught
• uninstructed
• undereducated
• ill-bred

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of literate

The teams experimenting organically, building their own use cases, are the AI-literate pockets. — Ayaskant Sarangi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Hitler came to power in a highly literate Germany, but the Nazis took advantage of movies and radio to push simple messages with immediate emotional impact. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 27 July 2026

In 1636, when Harvard University opened its doors to train Puritan ministers, administrators assumed that the entering class was highly literate – not only in English, but in Greek and Latin, as well. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

Emanuele Maucci would never have thought of launching an editorial venture publishing books that only the literate elite would read. — Literary Hub, 22 July 2026