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literate

adjective as in able to read and write

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I am not the most financially literate person (I would be hard-pressed to articulate the term “junk bond”).

Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

The trick for directors is to make it as surprising and shocking for such a gore-literate audience.

The Keep America Safe website was at least a globally literate and coherent representation of international security issues.

Penguin India wet itself, and entered into an agreement with this semi-literate goon.

Flaubert is in six volumes, four or five of which every literate man must at one time or another assault.

Lincoln, they knew, favored the extension of suffrage only to literate Negroes and to those who had served in the military forces.

The opinion was advanced that the evening of the day he landed his arrival was known in every literate home in New York.

I doubt if there is a single literate person in the world to-day who would apply the word “wicked” to Shelley.

There they competed on alternate forums with literate gardeners and stuttering horticultural amateurs.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to literate, such as: cultured, educated, knowledgeable, cultivated, instructed, and learned.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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