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Synonyms & Antonyms for literate
Synonyms: Adjective
educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, scholarly, well-read
Antonyms: Adjective
benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly
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Examples of literate in a Sentence
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She is literate in both English and Spanish. What percentage of the population is literate? The job requires you to be computer literate.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
So of course the sarcastic, wounded, hyper-culturally-literate girl wonder played by Kristen Bell is back to take on 2019. — Judy Berman, Time, "The 6 Best New Shows of Summer 2019," 20 Aug. 2019 The app provides both text and voice recognition technology in customized African local languages—as such, even less literate people can use it. — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, "This startup is using artificial intelligence to help African farmers tackle crop pests and diseases," 2 Aug. 2019 Less than a third of the population is literate, and even fewer have access to clean water. — Max Bearak, Washington Post, "The U.S. is pouring millions into Somalia despite concerns over dependency on aid," 17 June 2019 Launched in February 2017 with an outlay of Rs2,351.38 crore ($3.41 million), PMGDISHA aimed at making at least one individual in every rural household digitally literate. — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, "After disrupting Indian telecom, Reliance Jio teams up with Facebook for digital literacy," 4 July 2019 Once a surprise hit, the show is now valuable intellectual property whose kitschy, culturally literate aesthetic lends itself much more readily to brand tie-ins than the only other contemporary TV series with such wide appeal, Game of Thrones. — Judy Berman, Time, "Season 3 of Stranger Things Proves It Isn't Really a TV Show Anymore—It's a Franchise," 30 June 2019 Almost half of very low-literate adults in the U.S. live in poverty. — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, "SMU gaming app aims to teach millions of U.S. adults who can't read," 1 Aug. 2019 In Belambo people complain that there is no drinking water, that the school building is dilapidated, the teachers barely literate and that there is no clinic or doctor nearby. — The Economist, "The murky world of Madagascar’s roaring vanilla trade," 5 July 2019 Before the rise of radio and television, the poster offered a way to reach a range of people, literate or not, all at once. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, "How Posters Became Art," 1 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Nothing like signifyin’ in the Henry Louis Gates Jr. sense, with its necessarily intelligent playfulness, but something essentially post-literate and cheerless. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "A Herd Has No Mind," 11 July 2019 The sad proof: Seventy percent of blind Americans are unemployed — but of those who do work, 85% are Braille-literate, according to the NFB. — Peg Rosen, Good Housekeeping, "Blindness Can't Stop Me from Living the Life I Want to Live," 14 Sep. 2018 Lin said this is a good thing because not everyone with pending immigration cases is computer literate. — Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, "San Diego immigration court to pilot electronic filing system," 9 July 2018 For those in the continent from oral-based, spoken language (non-literate) communities with little formal education, these platforms can be inaccessible. — Chris Giles, CNN, "Why Mali has its own homegrown version of Facebook," 9 Apr. 2018 Because the vast expansion of state Medicaid and other entitlements has trapped more people into thinking that a low-grade life without work is good enough. Because public schools leave the young semi-numerate and semi-literate. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, "Trump’s Irrelevant Tariffs," 4 Apr. 2018 The dialogue — literate without feeling overwritten — begins with an exchange of compliments that devolves into gentle jokes, then mean-spirited ones and finally outright arguments. — Alan Zilberman, chicagotribune.com, "'The Party' review: Sex, lies and politics before the first course," 22 Feb. 2018 Now, North Korea’s computer literate are allegedly masterminding attacks around the globe, such as the hack on Sony Pictures in 2014 that crashed the bulk of the company’s servers and cost it tens of millions of dollars. — Bruce Harrison, NBC News, "How North Korea recruits its army of young hackers," 8 Dec. 2017 In last year’s election, nearly 63 million Americans supported a presidential candidate who was proudly post-literate. — Jeet Heer, New Republic, "The Post-Literate American Presidency," 23 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'literate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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