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
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Recent Examples of literate
In Shakespeare’s Wife, historian Germaine Greer parses over what little record survives to argue that Anne was likely literate and skilled in crafts and artisan work.
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Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
Imperial China’s literate and well-read bureaucracy encouraged detailed record-keeping and historical inquiry.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
The house in which I had been raised was literate but not artistic.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
Unsurprisingly to the economically literate, rent prices went down and more properties became available to rent.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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One of the mistakes Americans made in Iraq was to believe that the Iraq of the 1970s—highly educated, generally secular, with functioning bureaucracies—still existed.—
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For decades, scientists have had to make educated guesses about conditions under the shelves that buttress Antarctica’s massive glaciers.—
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Dunn wanted the property to be used as a scholarly and artistic retreat.—
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Rather than relying on decorative excess, the library’s pietra serena framework underscores its role as a working scholarly space.—
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Utilizing a far more civilized system, the host at the stand in front of the restaurant gives diners an oddly accurate time to return.—
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Here was a foolish and incompetent tribune of the nation’s racist vulgarians, opposed by the prosperous and the well educated, the civilized and the tolerant.—
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“Literate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/literate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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