[
US
/ˈɫɪtɝət/
]
[ UK /lˈɪtəɹət/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪtəɹət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields
computer literate - able to read and write
- versed in literature; dealing with literature
NOUN
- a person who can read and write
How To Use literate In A Sentence
- My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
- Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.
- The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
- Soldiers assigned to staff positions must be computer-literate and seek training for the operating systems and programs they will use.
- Daddy was obliterated and the Chief reigned supreme!
- He was quick to learn and was literate in both English and Irish and had a good understanding of the Brehan law.
- Only highly literate people are capable of discussing these subjects.
- Our literacy rate falls year by year, and even many who can read do not read, the so-called aliterates.
- Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of illiterate and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
- Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over.