| Literate 1. (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. 2. (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. 3. (n.) A literary man. Thesaurus Entries Brahmin, abstruse, brainworker, civilized, cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, egghead, encyclopedic, erudite, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, learned, lettered, mandarin, pansophic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, thinker, white-collar intellectual, wise, wise man |