literate

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 erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, educated, scholarly, well-readRelated Words civilized, cultivated, cultured; cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; polished, refined, well-bred; academic (also academical), bookish, didactic, didactical, inkhorn, pedantic, professorial; informed, instructed, schooled, skilled, trained; homeschooled, self-educated, self-instructed, self-taught; briefed, enlightened, informed, versed; overeducated, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic)Near Antonyms uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured; lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual; ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined; uninformed, unknowledgeable; uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored; semiliterate, undereducatedAntonyms benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly