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literate

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of literate

having or displaying advanced knowledge or education

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Synonyms of literate

educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, scholarly, well-read

Words Related to literate

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

Near Antonyms of literate

uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured

lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual

ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined

uninformed, unknowledgeable

uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored

semiliterate, undereducated

Antonyms of literate

benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly

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