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

His most acute scorn was reserved for my then-colleague, Alan Abelson, the longtime lead columnist and former Barron’s editor known for his florid, literate and persistent bearishness. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Luwi considered Koiye the first person in Waieti to become literate. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

By contrast, colonial America was a highly literate society where 90% of the population could read and people were more likely to argue out their problems than resort to violence. — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

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